About
Roxana Calderón is a writer, poet, and editor, born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Her writing is blunt about what she feels and what she carries inside.
Her first book, La casa de las maletas (DWA Press, 2019), is a collection of poems about emotional baggage and codependent relationships. Her second, Esto no es poesía (2024), is a self-published collection of more than 100 poetic notes written between 2018 and 2022.
Her work has appeared in La Galería Magazine, Dominican Writers, and Spanglish Voces, and in the anthologies Just Listen / Solo Escucha, El vuelo más largo (Ángeles del Papel, Peru), and Ni de aquí, ni de allá. In October 2021 she wrote, produced, and performed Once We Loved, a one-woman show directed by Francis Mateo, at Alianza Dominicana.
Editor
Since 2020 Roxana has edited nine published books in Spanish and English, across poetry, nonfiction, and educational content. She is Editor-in-Chief of Spanglish Voces, a digital literary magazine for bilingual and bicultural writers, and collaborates with the Dominican Writers Association.
She is the founder of Pivot Project Studio, a publishing studio that works with Hispanic and Latino writers in the United States from manuscript to publication. She holds an MPS in Publishing from The George Washington University.
Teacher
Roxana has spent nearly 20 years in youth development in New York City. Since 2021 she has led bilingual creative writing workshops for NYC Department of Education students, and she has facilitated workshops in partnership with Poets & Writers. In 2026 she taught in the Diplomado en Escritura Creativa of Fundación Inclusión Social FUSIÓN, endorsed by the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo.
She was a 2021 NYC Artist Corps grantee.
En español
¿Quién soy?
Roxana Calderón, nacida en Brooklyn y criada en Santo Domingo, es escritora, poeta y editora. Su escritura dice sin rodeos lo que siente y lo que lleva por dentro.
Es autora de los poemarios La casa de las maletas (DWA Press, 2019) y Esto no es poesía (2024). En 2021 escribió y protagonizó el unipersonal Once We Loved, dirigido por Francis Mateo. Es editora en jefe de Spanglish Voces, fundadora de Pivot Project Studio y facilita talleres bilingües de escritura creativa en Nueva York.