Cara Dees

A photo of Cara Dees looking away from the camera.

Cara Dees is the author of the forthcoming collection, What You’ve Been Waiting For, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editors’ Choice Award, and Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland, winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize. She holds a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from Vanderbilt University. Her work appears in publications like The Atlantic, The Georgia Review, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry Magazine.

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To My Future Child, Concerning Your State of Birth

Cara Dees  | 
Issue 75.2 Spring 2026

In this place, the lawmakers keep us in sight until / we leave each other.