About: Olivia Romo

Olivia Romo is an American poet, spoken word artist and water rights activist from Taos, New Mexico. Romo lives in Pojoaque, and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Several of her poems and projects refer to water issues in relation to the acequia system of irrigation ditches in Northern New Mexico. Her work addresses the cultural heritage of water within agricultural communities as part of their current and ancestral ways of life. She is bilingual and her spoken word poetry is presented in the manito dialect of New Mexico. She has been named the New Mexico State Champion of Slam Poetry, and was the state of Nevada's first Poet in Residence. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Albuquerque Journal, and Taos News. She has been described as a water rights activist, and has worke