Dawn Angelicca Barcelona is a writer from Newark, New Jersey, currently residing in Chicago, Illinois. Her debut chapbook, Roundtrip, will be published by Finishing Line Press in March 2025, named as the second honorable mention in the 2023 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Contest. Her poetry has been published in Atlanta Review, Epiphany, Red Ogre Review, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Tyger Quarterly, and SUSPECT. She has forthcoming poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in Brink, Reed Magazine, and Tampa Review. She won second place in Singapore Unbound’s 10th Annual Poetry Contest for her poem, “Human Resources,” which was also named a finalist for the 14Hills Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award. She was a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award in Poetry in 2022 and served as Epiphany’s Fresh Voices Fellow and Poetry Editor in 2023. Dawn is an alumna of Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, VONA, Community of Writers at Olympic Valley, Juniper Summer Writers’ Institute, Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writers Lab, and The Fulbright Program. She likes to run, collage, talk about health, and travel via public transportation.