
Edythe Rodriguez
Edythe Rodriguez is an Upper Darby poet and copywriter, hardcore Bustelo drinker and non-violent Beyhive member. She loves neo-soul, battle rap, and long walks through old poetry journals. Edythe is a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship Finalist and has received fellowships from PEN America, The Hurston/Wright Foundation, The Watering Hole, and Brooklyn Poets. She is the winner of the 2022 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest, 2022 Sandy Crimmins Poetry Prize from Philadelphia Stories and the 2021 Margaret Reid Prize from Winning Writers. Her work is either published in Obsidian, The Offing, and Torch Literary Arts and her debut chapbook drops April 2023.