Rodriguez, Aaliyah (b. 1993) is a Mexican American writer and former weather researcher. Raised in San Antonio, Texas, she studied atmospheric science at the University of Texas at Austin and earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona. Before turning to fiction full-time, she taught high school English in El Paso and spent summers with a storm-monitoring project across the High Plains. Her shorter work has appeared in regional journals and anthologies, and she leads workshops for teen writers throughout the Southwest. She lives in Tucson with a rescue mutt named Nimbus and a growing collection of vintage maps.
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