Catherine Valdez is a Dominican-American writer, poet, and comic-artist from Miami, Florida. In 2019, she received her B.A. from Columbia University with degrees in psychology and creative writing. She received her MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in spring 2021 and is currently completing a post-graduate fellowship year (2021-2022 Zellow).

She is the author of the chapbook Imperial Debris in Quisqueya and Beyond which won the 2018 NFSPS Florence Kahn Memorial Award.

Currently, she is at work completing her debut poetry collection Apocalypse and Other Gardens. Her writing concerns varied topics such as mental health, body dysmorphia, mythology, Dominican heritage, ecological catastrophe, ghost stories, and the strange yet revitalizing landscape of internet fandom and forums.