Michelle Otero

Michelle Otero is the Poet Laureate of Albuquerque. Her work appears or is forthcoming in New Mexico Magazine, Brevity, and The Best of Brevity. She is the author of Malinche’s Daughter, an essay collection based on her work with women survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault as a Fulbright Fellow in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Issue 68.2 Spring 2019

“Mi’ja, did I ever tell you why I got so sick?” Grandpa Tino asked as I drove him an hour east from Deming to the hospital in Las Cruces. My grandma was in critical care again, this time with pneumonia, after too short a recovery from having a lung removed a month and a half […]