BIO

“THE FUNCTION OF FREEDOM IS TO FREE SOMEONE ELSE.”
-Toni Morrison

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez was born in Managua, Nicaragua but calls Nashville, Tennessee home. She is a feminist, theologian, storyteller, and advocate.

Mojica Rodríguez got her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt University’s Divinity school in the Spring of 2015. She is a respected storyteller who has traveled across the USA telling stories to countless college and university students. Mojica Rodríguez merges storytelling with pedagogy to help folks understand the larger forces at play.

Mojica Rodríguez is a first-generation college graduate, an eldest daughter in an immigrant household, and breaking barriers with her storytelling.

To date she has participated in the YA anthology "Nevertheless, We Persisted." Prisca also wrote for the anthology edited by Lynda Lopez titled, "The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez." Most recently, she had the honor of contributing to the NYT Best Selling anthology edited by Roxane Gay titled, "The Portable Feminist Reader"

She started the platform Latina Rebels in 2013, and currently it boasts over 300k organic followers online. She has been featured in Telemundo, Univision, Mitú, Huffington Post Latino Voices, Guerrilla Feminism, Latina Mag, NBC, MTV, Cosmopolitan, Everyday Feminism, PopSugar, and the list goes on. Because of Prisca’s extensive body of work, she has also worked with the United Methodist Church, National Endowment of the Arts, Smithsonian, NALAC, Planned Parenthood, and was even invited for the Obama White House in 2016.

She is unapologetic, angry, and uncompromising about protecting and upholding the stories of Latinx communities. Que viva la gente!

Currently, she has two full-length books published through Seal Press a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group.

Buy your copy of "For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts" here!

Buy your copy of "Tias & Primas" here

Representation
Bookings manager:
Linda Melodia linda@mtndevelopment.com
Literary inquiries:
David Patterson david@defliterary.com
Aemilia Phillips aemilia@defliterary.com