Alice James Books Welcomes Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

 

Alice James Books is thrilled to welcome Joshua Jennifer Espinoza to the press! 

Jennifer’s poetry collection I Don’t Want to Be Understood is forthcoming from Alice James Books in August 2024. Big welcome, Jennifer!

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza is a trans woman poet. Her work has been featured in Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, Poem-a-day @poets.org, and elsewhere. She is the author of I'm Alive / It Hurts / I Love It (Big Lucks 2019) and THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS (The Accomplices 2016). She holds an MFA in poetry from UC Riverside and is currently a professor of creative writing. Jennifer lives in California with her wife, poet/essayist Eileen Elizabeth, and their cat and dog.

Find Jennifer online at https://joshuajenniferespinoza.com/

 

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