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Seeking Terra Firma
When I was little, my mother called me her water baby. When I wasn’t running around the deck of a sailboat, I was diving to the bottom of our pool, searching for plastic rings and silver coins. From...
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Curse of Beauty
My daughter posts a bikini selfie on Instagram. Half her ass is showing. I rush to her room and swing the door open so hard the knob makes a hole in the wall. I say, “Take it down.” My daughter is...
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Gourmand
Driving into the parking lot of Pollo Tropical, I eye the drive-thru line, a dozen cars deep, and decide to brave the line inside instead. I pull into the closest space to the door, reach over my...
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Giant Possums of the Promised Land”
At the Heather Glen Apartment Complex there was no gate, no lights, no tall buildings, not many people on the streets. There was a moldy Jacuzzi and a small pool where dead insects, used condoms, and...
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A New Version of Possibility: Talking with Juliana Delgado Lopera
Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer, historian, speaker, and storyteller based in San Francisco. They have been awarded fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook, Headlands...
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Poetry as Archeology: Talking with Roy G. Guzmán
“Catrachos,” the titular poem in Roy G. Guzmán’s debut collection, introduces a collection that is an examination of personal history, family history, queer history, and cultural history. It begins:...
View ArticleThis Week In Indie Bookstores
Bloomberg takes a look at whether bookstores will weather the COVID-19 crisis. Publishers Weekly reports that April bookstore sales were down—by sixty-five percent. The American Booksellers Association...
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My Boyfriend, His Lover, and Me
We were out to dinner at a fancy Mediterranean restaurant when my boyfriend Diego told me about his famous lover. At the risk of sounding desperate, Diego was not technically my “boyfriend,” though...
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A Space of Unknowing: Talking with Gabriela Garcia
It starts with a loose thread. What unravels is a prismatic multigenerational debut that follows five generations of women—mothers and daughters—across the Cuban diaspora. To say Of Women and Salt,...
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Desire for Depth and Closeness: Talking with Laurel Nakanishi
In 2013, I met a young writer named Laurel Nakanishi at a conference in Miami, sponsored by the creative writing program where I teach. She told me she was interested in pursuing a Master of Fine Arts...
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