Gabriela Orozco is the 2019 DC Youth Poet Laureate and the 2020 DC Youth Grand Slam Champion, and has read her poetry at venues across the DC region. Her debut chapbook, Child of Borrowed Churches, released October 17th, 2021 at Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC, and is now sold out. Orozco is currently an undergraduate at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she studies Jewish History and Comparative Literature, respectively.