Jennifer Maritza McCauley is the author the author of the IPPY award-winning cross genre collection SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, the poetry collection KINDS OF GRACE (Spring 2024) and the short story collection WHEN TRYING TO RETURN HOME which was a New York Times Editors' Choice, Best Fiction Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, Must Read Book of 2023 by the Chicago Public Library, and called a Most Anticipated by Today. She has been granted fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kimbilio and CantoMundo. She received her MFA from FIU and her PhD from the University of Missouri. She is presently an assistant professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, faculty at Yale Writers' Workshop, and fiction editor at Pleiades.
The mythology of our autumn minds, scatter-shot and red-leafy and uplifted, we rely on the black roots winding and stretching from our windows that remind us when leaves should shudder, tumble, tell. We rely so much on every single face but ours. So many smatterings of colors. * I care so much for you. You are a sliver of moon/pie,… Read more →
I’ll tell you the best Bible story. My version is Best but you can check the original if you want. So Jesus is getting pretty big at this point; he’s really blowing up. Folks are following him and he’s marching on, disciples are striding and streaking next to him; you know Jesus always rides twelve people deep. This woman sees… Read more →
it’s the new year 21st century & old history is breathing fresh but look: Bessie came back. And she is lit, lemme tell you. She ain’t Bigger’s Bessie, never was. She got her own claims to Big. That busted brick over her head, that body-freeze in all-consuming snow after he threw her body down his shaft? That shove ain’t gonna… Read more →