Noelia Cerna

Noelia Cerna is a Costa Rican poet based in Fayetteville, AR. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Westminster College in Missouri. Her poems have appeared in TERSE. Journal, The Revolution (Relaunch), The North Meridian Review, and Plants & Poetry Journal. Cerna is a reader and poetry feedback editor for Tinderbox Poetry Journal, an assistant poetry editor for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, an associate editor for Sibling Rivalry Press, a writing mentor for PEN America’s Prison Writing Mentorship Program, a writer for Powerful Latinas Rising, the board president for Ozark Poets and Writers Collective, and an editor for Nomadic Press.


Articles by Noelia Cerna

Wednesday November 11

Longing to be Heard

These dual essays were written by Benjamin Frandsen and Noelia Cerna, 2020 honorees for the PEN America/L’Engle-Rahman Prize for Mentorship.