heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is a writer, artist, scholar, educator, and cultural worker. They are author of The Inheritance of Haunting, Ephemeral, Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary, and Wayward Creatures. They are a professor of feminist, queer, and disability studies; poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal; and editor/curator of the Anomalous Press column, Wild-Wired: Neuroqueer and Neurodivergent Poetics. A VONA Alum and recipient of the 2023 Creative Capital Award, they have received poetry fellowships from Zoeglossia, CantoMundo, Radar Productions, and Yale's Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Their poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in American Poetry Review, The Normal School, Michigan Quarterly Review, Alocasia, Poetry, and Waxwing, among other places. They live in unceded Acjachemen and Tongva lands, otherwise known as southern California.