My name is Yomalis Lourdes Rosario (she/her), and I was born & raised in Washington Heights, NYC.

After studying History at Dartmouth College, I worked as a public school teacher for five years. I taught Social Studies, Language Arts, and Dual-Language Social Studies (in Spanish)—mostly at the middle school level. During that time, I received a Master’s in Teaching from the University of Washington.

Now, I care for my two young children full-time (I’m teaching them how to read!) and devote all of my spare time to reading, writing & studying poetry, taking on teaching & editing gigs whenever possible, and always looking for more work. I have been volunteering as the Programs Manager for Literary Liberation since October 2024.

Since devoting myself to poetry, I was awarded a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship in Fall 2023, a Parent-Writer Fellowship from Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing in Spring 2024, and a scholarship for The Seventh Wave’s Digital Residency in Summer 2024. I am currently studying with a group of amazing in poets in the Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program 2025 while I write toward a full poetry manuscript. You can find my poems in The Marbled Sigh, Hot Pot Magazine, ROOM Magazine (in print!), and Epiphany Magazine (in print!). I also recently launched WE THE SOIL, an online literary magazine dedicated to celebrating creative community.

I write a monthly-ish newsletter on Substack, curate a workshop listing through my free monthly newsletter we the soil, and offer seasonal poetry workshops. Please don’t hesitate to connect. :)