Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir (born 1989),[1] also known as Vala Thorodds, is an Icelandic poet, publisher, translator and literary curator.

[2][3][4] She is one of the founders and current directors of Meðgönguljóð, a grassroots literary organisation and publisher of poetry based in Iceland.

Her work has appeared in print in various anthologies and magazines in Reykjavík, Berlin, Bristol, and Zaragosa.

In 2014, Valgerður was nominated on behalf of Iceland to the PEN International New Voices Award.

Her edition and translation from the Icelandic of the selected poems of Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Waitress in Fall, was co-published in the UK in 2018 by Carcanet Press and Partus Press[8] and was selected by The Sunday Times as one of the best poetry books of the year.