New California Writing 2013

Thanks to the bilingual online news magazine, ChicoSol.org, my poem "California Was Never Kansas" will be published this spring in New California Writing 2013, which you can check out here: https://heydaybooks.com/book/new-california-writing-2013/. ChicoSol submitted the piece for consideration to the anthology last spring, and I recently learned that it had been selected for publication. This year's contributors include Joan Didion, Robert Hass, Gustavo Arellano, Susan Straight, and David Rains Wallace; needless to say, it is a huge honor to be featured in the same collection as these folks. My work hasn't been anthologized since I was 14, when my essay "Across the River" was published in Mexico, A Love Story, so it feels good to be experiencing the vulnerability that comes with sharing one's work again.

You can read the ChicoSol version of the poem here.