Rodrick Minor is a visual artist, poet, and Black foodways advocate from Mississippi and Louisiana. His work has appeared in or forthcoming in  Gravy Quarterly, Callaloo, Nashville Review, Bellingham Review, Obsidian Lit, and Mississippi Review. He is a Best of Net nominee, Best New Poet nominee, Cave Canem Fellow, Tin House Fellow, Watering Hole Fellow, Hurston-Wright Fellow, 2025 Cato Fellowship Prize Finalist, 2025 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize Finalist, and 2026 Deep Line Poetry Series Finalist. He earned an MFA in poetry at Randolph College, where he was awarded the Nancy Craig Blackburn ’71 Fellowship. He is currently an editor for Voicemail Poems.