Oriette D'Angelo is a PhD Candidate in Spanish with a Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. She holds an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa and a master’s in Digital Communications and Media Arts from DePaul University, Chicago. She is the founder and director of the literary magazine Digopalabra.txt and the web-research project #PoetasVenezolanas. 

Author of the poetry books: A través del ruido (2025); A tu cuerpo (2025); En mi boca se abrirá la noche (2023); Pájaro que muerde. Diario de Iowa, 2018-2019 (2022); and Cardiopatías (2016; Winner of the Premio para Autores Inéditos by Monte Ávila Editores, 2014. Translated into English by Lupita Eyde-Tucker as Homeland of Swarms, published by co im.press in 2024, and a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation 2025).

She has been awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award by the Council of Teaching (2026), the Jane A. Weiss Memorial Dissertation Scholarship (2025), and the Stephen Lynn Smith Memorial Scholarship for Social Justice (2022), granted by the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies department. 

Her research examines how 20th- and 21st-century political violence in Cuba, Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, and Argentina is reimagined in contemporary literature, and how these representations shape individual and collective identities. Focusing on both canonical and emergent authors, it explores how fiction reconstructs experiences of imprisonment, domestic violence, forced migration, and political trauma.