Rolando Lopez
Instructor
About Rolando
A multidisciplinary award-winning writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Rolando-André López is currently pursuing a Creative Writing MFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. In 2020, he was a 1st Place Voices of Color Fellow at Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, and his essay, "ya tú sa'e," was a finalist for the Ray Ventre nonfiction prize at Passages North Literary Journal. A performer as well, he read for the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture in Boston, after his poem, "wealth," was selected by Porsha Olayiwola for its representation of Afrofuturism. In 2021, he was awarded a Winter/Spring 2022 Fellowship at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. His work has been featured in Orca Literary Journal, America Magazine, Sacred Trespasses, The Coffin Bell Journal, and Bellow Literary Journal.
