Rosa Alcalá is a poet and translator originally from Paterson, NJ, who has published four books of poetry, including her most recent collection, YOU (Coffee House Press, 2024).
She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant for Artists award, and a Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellowship from Harvard. Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Harper’s, The Atlantic, The Nation, and two volumes of The Best American Poetry.
While at MacDowell, she worked on a manuscript about textile factory work, dementia, and translation.
