Rhoni Blankenhorn is a Filipina American writer. Her first book of poetry, Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet, won the 2024 Trio Award. A Sewanee Scholar, a Saltonstall Fellow, and a Tin House alum, her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Narrative, Beloit, RHINO, Adroit, and Pigeon Pages. Her work has received recognition from the Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival, the Center for Book Arts, Adroit’s Djanikian Scholarship, and elsewhere.