Rhoni Blankenhorn is a Filipina American writer and translator and the author of the debut poetry collection Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet (2025), winner of the Trio Award, judged by Jessica Q. Stark. Blankenhorn recently published work in Narrative Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Mercury Firs, Honey, and other journals.

 

She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA from Columbia University.