Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (born 1981) is a Venezuelan writer from Caracas.

He completed his doctorate in literature and linguistics from Paris XIII University with a dissertation on the work of his literary mentor, Venezuelan writer Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez.

A translation of his short story 'Payaso' (Clown) appears in the anthology Crude Words: Contemporary Writing from Venezuela (Ragpicker Press, 2016).

[1] In 2007, he was named as one of the Bogota39, a list of the best young writers in Latin America.

In 2013, he participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.