Dawn Angelicca Barcelona is a Filipina-American writer from Newark, New Jersey, currently residing in Chicago, Illinois. Her debut chapbook, Roundtrip, was published by Finishing Line Press in March 2025, named as the second honorable mention in the 2023 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Contest. Her work has been published in BRINK, Atlanta Review, Epiphany, Tampa Review, Tyger Quarterly, and SUSPECT. Her short story, “Out of Service” was published by Reed Magazine and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. 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 the Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, McCormack Writing Center (fka Tin House Workshop), 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 to South Korea. She is currently completing her MFA+MA in English Literature and Creative Writing at Northwestern University. She likes to run, collage, talk about mental health, and travel via public transportation.