Photograph by Samuel Avery Giardina
PROSE
“Otra Noche En Miami”- On The Seawall“Zuihitsu from the violence in my mother’s body” - Foglifter“Boxeando con Reggaeton” - Half Mystic Journal“Big Mouth” - The Arkansas International“PASAPORTE F076717” - CRAFT
“Brazos en Alto” - wildness
“United We Can” - F(r)iction“Cuentos y Leyendas for the End of the World” - PANK
“Lluvia sin Agua” - Best of the Net 2020“Unbirthing” - Homology Lit (2020)
POETRY
“Ode to Blasting Reggaeton on Sunday Mornings” and “Golden Shower Tree” - BOMB Magazine (2023)“Abecedarian for Air Jordans, Bad Bunny, Crocs & You” - HAD (2022)“i wanted to write a fall poem” - Iron Horse Review (2022)“Please Be Okay (summer prayers)” - Bodega Magazine (2022)“i’m twice as old as i was when my country tried to drown me” - Poets.org (2021) Virginia Tech/ Poetry Society of Virginia Prize“De Brazos Caídos” - The Pinch (2021)“Lemandarin” - Palette Poetry (2021)“Land Sickness Sestina” - Poets.org (2020) Virginia Tech/Poetry Society of Virginia Prize
THE CHAPBOOK
Rain Revolutions is a minor miracle. In three important stories, Bessie Flores Zaldívar connects the dots between individual characters and the failures of the systems that define the parameters of their agency. National infrastructure, poverty, imperialism—these massive forces constrain the characters' lives, but not their hearts. Watch out for Zaldívar; I can't wait to see what she does next.
—Matthew Salesses, author of Craft in the Real World