Jessica Cuello
Jessica Cuello is the author of Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, and the author of Yours, Creature, forthcoming from JackLeg Press in spring of 2023. She is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). Cuello has been awarded the 2017 CNY Book Award, the 2016 Washington Prize, the New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and the New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. She is a poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review.
Reading List
Prayer
I remember asking to go the hospital It was Easter and we were dressed up We were stuffed and tired from driving I leaned over the banister to ask It’s menstrual cramps she said as if to herself My mother did not share what proof I lacked Sickness was repulsive to her I let my […]
In a bed made of grass
I put what I know. My mother had been a girl like I had been a girl. But that’s where it ends. I know nothing. Not the dress she loved or the friend she had or the story of the nest or what animal she cut open in biology class. Nothing. Except her mother terrified […]