Dawn Angelicca Barcelona

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Dawn Angelicca Barcelona

Dawn Angelicca Barcelona is Chicago-based poet originally from New Jersey. She is a winner of the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award (2022) and Epiphany Magazine's Fresh Voices Fellowship (2023). Her work has been published in Epiphany, Tampa Review, Red Ogre Review, Atlanta Review, Stoneboat Literary Journal, and BRINK. She's currently a candidate in the Litowitz MFA+MA Program at Northwestern University. She is an alumna of the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Fulbright Program, Community of Writers at Olympic Valley, VONA, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and Kearny Street Workshop's Interdisciplinary Writers Lab. Her debut chapbook, Roundtrip, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2025. She likes to dance, talk about mental health, and travel via public transportation. Follow her on Instagram @dawnangelicca or dawnangelicca.com