Andres Cordoba ’19
Andres Cordoba is a Massachusetts-born writer.
Cordoba was one of five aspiring writers named a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow, part of the Poetry Foundation’s mission to showcase and celebrate exceptional young poets and recognize their contributions to the literary field.
One of the most substantial awards offered to emerging poets in the United States, the $27,000 prize is intended to support the development of their craft.
At Purchase, Cordoba received two SUNY honors for graduating students, the Thayer Fellowship and Patricia Kerr Ross Award. He also excelled as an athlete competing in Cross Country.
In 2019, was named a Breakout 8 Writer by Epiphany Literary Journal and was a finalist for Black Warrior Review ’s 2020 Poetry Contest.
He has received support from Brooklyn Poets and was a Periplus Mentorship Fellow and his work can be found in The Harvard Review, The Gandy Dancer, and Epiphany.
Cordoba earned and MFA in poetry from Brown University, where he won the 2024 John Hawkes Prize, 2024 Edwin Honig Memorial Award, and 2025 Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop Prize.
He lives in New York, where he is the co-poetry editor for Big Score Lit and an MFA candidate in fiction at New York University.