Verónica Reyes (born 1968 or 1969) is a Chicana, Latina, LGBT poet from East Los Angeles, California.
"[4] Reyes was initially rejected from universities because her English-language scores were too low, though she eventually received help from the Educational Opportunity Program and passed the required language tests on her third try.
Reyes is a member of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social and the Macondo Writers’ Workshop.
In 1999, Reyes won the AWP Intro Journals Project award and was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.
Reyes describes herself as a "Chicana feminist jota poet from East Los Angeles"[5] and has stated, I write for Mexicanos, Chicanas/os, for the next generation to see/read pieces that looked like us.