Diana Oropeza

Diana Oropeza is a Portland-based writer working across poetry, nonfiction, and spoken word. Born in Lake Tahoe to Mexican immigrant parents, her work explores migration, translation, and layered narrative voice. She holds an MFA from PNCA at Willamette University, where her debut hybrid collection An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance (Future Tense Books, 2024) won the Thesis Award, and a BA in Media Studies from UC Berkeley. She co-founded The Social Stomach, a spoken word and drums project that reimagines traditional poetry readings. Her writing appears in Willamette Magazine, River Styx, and Not My Style. She is currently researching lab rats and mazes for a new hybrid collection examining systems of control and observation.