Jennifer Maritza McCauley

Jennifer Maritza McCauley is the author of the poetry collection Scar On/Scar Off, which received an IPPY award and When Trying to Return Home, a short story collection, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, Best Book of the Month by Kirkus, Ms. and Southern Review of Books and called a “Best Book to Read in 2023” by Today. She has been granted fellowships from the NEA, Kimbilio and CantoMundo. She received her MFA from FIU and her PhD from the University of Missouri. She is presently an assistant professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and fiction editor at Pleiades.

Jennifer Maritza McCauley's work appears in Issue 44.2 Winter/Spring 2024.