Aleyda Quevedo Rojas (born 1972, Quito)^[1] is an Ecuadorian poet and journalist.^[2] She is considered one of the most relevant voices in contemporary Latin American poetry.^[3]

Among her best-known works are the poems Algunas rosas verdes (1996), for which she won the Jorge Carrera Andrade Award of that year,^[4] and Soy mi cuerpo (2006), in which she uses the human figure as an escape from the fears and anguish provoked by death.^[5][6] In 2017, the House of Ecuadorian Culture published the book Cierta manera de la luz sobre el cuerpo, a compilation of Quevedo's poems to that point.^[7][8] Writer Jesús David Curbelo described Quevedo's work as the "witness of a life and a supplier of feelings in which she scrutinizes first the body, then emotions, then finally the mind."^[9]

In July 2018, Quevedo attended a colloquium commemorating Jorge Carrera Andrade with writers César Eduardo Carrión, Javier Cevallos Perugachi, José Gregorio Vásquez, Jesús David Curbelo, and Mario Pera.^[10]

• Cambio en los climas del corazón (1989)^[4]
• La actitud del fuego (1994)^[4]
• Algunas rosas verdes (1996)^[4]
• Espacio vacío (2001)^[4]
• Soy mi cuerpo (2006)
• Dos encendidos, Manuela y Bolívar (2010)^[4]
• Cierta manera de la luz sobre el cuerpo (2017)^[7]