A poem by Los Angeles native Claudia Rodriguez, for the Viva Macondo digital chapbook.
Author Archives: Claudia Rodriguez
Claudia Rodriguez is a community scholar, educator, creative writer and performer form Compton. For the past sixteen years, she has developed work with marginalized communities. As a COLA Fellow, an award from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Claudia wrote a performance poem that challenges mainstream perceptions of Compton. As a 2014 recipient of an Artist in Residence Grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, she developed the project "Nuestros Cuerpos Nuestras Almas/Our Bodies, Our Souls (OBOS)." OBOS was a literary project wherein she worked with Transgender Latina immigrants. Through facilitated creative writing exercises, they explored their biographies and produced creative works to be published in a bilingual OBOS anthology (forthcoming 2019). Currently, Claudia is a Ph.D. student in the UCLA Chicana/os Studies Department.
