Dr. Jennifer Maritza McCauley (she/her)
@maritza4770.bsky.social
Author of SCAR ON/SCAR OFF(Stalking Horse),When Trying to Return Home (Counterpoint), Kinds of Grace(FlowerSong), Neon Steel (Cornerstone) (2/26),VERSUS('27) & Tumbao ('29)(Texas Review Press). CW profe. Dresses, anime, manga & comics lover.
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
Versus ('27) and (Tumbao '29) will also be out from Texas Review Press; poetry collections.
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Versus ('27) and (Tumbao '29) will also be out from Texas Review Press; poetry collections.
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Neon Steel arrives Feb. 17th from Cornerstone Press! Link to more info here and here: www.jennifermaritzamccauley.com/neon-steel
Neon Steel arrives Feb. 17th from Cornerstone Press! Link to more info here and here: www.jennifermaritzamccauley.com/neon-steel
Books
- Cornerstone Press | UWSP
www3.uwsp.edu
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Neon Steel arrives Feb. 17th from Cornerstone Press! Link to more info here and here: www.jennifermaritzamccauley.com/neon-steel
Neon Steel arrives Feb. 17th from Cornerstone Press! Link to more info here and here: www.jennifermaritzamccauley.com/neon-steel
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Never, ever thought I’d see my work in @pleiadesmag.bsky.social, let alone that the lovely editor Jennifer Maritza McCauley would DM to solicit work from me. But both these amazing things have happened.
🙏 😭
🙏 😭
June 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Never, ever thought I’d see my work in @pleiadesmag.bsky.social, let alone that the lovely editor Jennifer Maritza McCauley would DM to solicit work from me. But both these amazing things have happened.
🙏 😭
🙏 😭
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Grateful for this blurb from the brilliant Jennifer Maritza McCauley!
November 19, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Grateful for this blurb from the brilliant Jennifer Maritza McCauley!
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Faculty at 2025 Yale Writers’ Workshop and Faculty reading. Thank you to my colleagues (and friends): Jotham Burrello, Lisa Page, Kirsten Bakis, Molly Gaudry, Trey Ellis, Sybil Baker, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, Mary Collins, Mishka Shubaly.
June 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Faculty at 2025 Yale Writers’ Workshop and Faculty reading. Thank you to my colleagues (and friends): Jotham Burrello, Lisa Page, Kirsten Bakis, Molly Gaudry, Trey Ellis, Sybil Baker, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, Mary Collins, Mishka Shubaly.
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Wherein Jennifer Maritza McCauley reads from KINDS OF GRACE, a finalist for the 2024 BIG OTHER Book Award for Poetry!
youtu.be/kG0Juvf70iw
Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social
youtu.be/kG0Juvf70iw
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2024 BIG OTHER Book Award for Poetry Finalist Jennifer Maritza McCauley Reads from KINDS OF GRACE
YouTube video by Big Other
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May 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Wherein Jennifer Maritza McCauley reads from KINDS OF GRACE, a finalist for the 2024 BIG OTHER Book Award for Poetry!
youtu.be/kG0Juvf70iw
Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social
youtu.be/kG0Juvf70iw
Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social
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“Silly Goose” by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
She is sitting, waiting for her partner to return / bringing Missouri flora in his mouth; coneflower, / daisies, aster.
She is sitting, waiting for her partner to return / bringing Missouri flora in his mouth; coneflower, / daisies, aster.
“Silly Goose” by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
She is sitting, waiting for her partner to return / bringing Missouri flora in his mouth; coneflower, / daisies, aster.
pinehillsreview.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
“Silly Goose” by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
She is sitting, waiting for her partner to return / bringing Missouri flora in his mouth; coneflower, / daisies, aster.
She is sitting, waiting for her partner to return / bringing Missouri flora in his mouth; coneflower, / daisies, aster.
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It's Friday! Check out "Africa Hollers Back to Me" by Torch Friday Feature, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, in Torch Magazine online: torchliteraryarts.org/post/friday-feature-jennifer-maritza-mccauley
#torchliteraryarts #fridayfeature #poetry
#torchliteraryarts #fridayfeature #poetry
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It's Friday! Check out "Africa Hollers Back to Me" by Torch Friday Feature, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, in Torch Magazine online: torchliteraryarts.org/post/friday-feature-jennifer-maritza-mccauley
#torchliteraryarts #fridayfeature #poetry
#torchliteraryarts #fridayfeature #poetry
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Check out these short stories that will stick with you long after the final page! #FridayFeaturedReading #RecommendedReads #BookRecommendations #ShortStories #LibSky #BookSky
July 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Check out these short stories that will stick with you long after the final page! #FridayFeaturedReading #RecommendedReads #BookRecommendations #ShortStories #LibSky #BookSky
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The farthest away I was to #Pittsburgh to capture the moon was 12.4 miles, and last night I was just shy of that at 9 miles but it worked out perfectly. The moon rose right beside the Steel Building, making for an unbelievable composition.
September 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The farthest away I was to #Pittsburgh to capture the moon was 12.4 miles, and last night I was just shy of that at 9 miles but it worked out perfectly. The moon rose right beside the Steel Building, making for an unbelievable composition.
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James Baldwin’s message was simple: we’re afraid of love, because we’re afraid of exposing our true selves.
The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin
An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.
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August 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
James Baldwin’s message was simple: we’re afraid of love, because we’re afraid of exposing our true selves.
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Ezra Koenig was on some existential shit when he wrote “I don’t wanna live like this, but I don’t wanna die”
August 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Ezra Koenig was on some existential shit when he wrote “I don’t wanna live like this, but I don’t wanna die”
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July 4, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Black women! Come to the front, let’s huddle up. Sisters of the Yam is THAT GIRL in the book world! This is the prerequisite read to cultural self-recovery & self-actualization. If you haven’t claimed it, this has the knowledge to free living Sis.
Happy #Juneteenth
#blackbooksky #bvm #blackskywomen
Happy #Juneteenth
#blackbooksky #bvm #blackskywomen
June 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Black women! Come to the front, let’s huddle up. Sisters of the Yam is THAT GIRL in the book world! This is the prerequisite read to cultural self-recovery & self-actualization. If you haven’t claimed it, this has the knowledge to free living Sis.
Happy #Juneteenth
#blackbooksky #bvm #blackskywomen
Happy #Juneteenth
#blackbooksky #bvm #blackskywomen
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“When I was a little girl, in Texas, I thought Juneteenth belonged to us, meaning to the state of Texas generally and to black Texans specifically.” Revisit Annette Gordon-Reed’s piece, from 2020, on how a Texan holiday became a national tradition.
Growing Up with Juneteenth
How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.
www.newyorker.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“When I was a little girl, in Texas, I thought Juneteenth belonged to us, meaning to the state of Texas generally and to black Texans specifically.” Revisit Annette Gordon-Reed’s piece, from 2020, on how a Texan holiday became a national tradition.
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in the midwest it's dunning-kroger
June 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
in the midwest it's dunning-kroger
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I’m so tired of these motherfuckers
June 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I’m so tired of these motherfuckers
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teach teacher!
Affect = fuck around
Effect = find out
Effect = find out
Affect and effect be whooping my ass still. Ngl.
May 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
teach teacher!
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American/ Un-Holied
Tonight, my old spirit calls for my unholy body, as if that shell is a child yearning for comfort, as if my skin is made of red clay and loon-feather, as if it is my brown Mami and street-Black Papa, who have come to rescue me, from some kind of housefire that the neighbors…
Tonight, my old spirit calls for my unholy body, as if that shell is a child yearning for comfort, as if my skin is made of red clay and loon-feather, as if it is my brown Mami and street-Black Papa, who have come to rescue me, from some kind of housefire that the neighbors…
American/ Un-Holied
Tonight, my old spirit calls for my unholy body, as if that shell is a child yearning for comfort, as if my skin is made of red clay and loon-feather, as if it is my brown Mami and street-Black Papa, who have come to rescue me, from some kind of housefire that the neighbors started, that I am trapped in,
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May 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
American/ Un-Holied
Tonight, my old spirit calls for my unholy body, as if that shell is a child yearning for comfort, as if my skin is made of red clay and loon-feather, as if it is my brown Mami and street-Black Papa, who have come to rescue me, from some kind of housefire that the neighbors…
Tonight, my old spirit calls for my unholy body, as if that shell is a child yearning for comfort, as if my skin is made of red clay and loon-feather, as if it is my brown Mami and street-Black Papa, who have come to rescue me, from some kind of housefire that the neighbors…
Thank you, Jerry Jazz Musician! <3 www.jerryjazzmusician.com/the-sunday-p...
The Sunday Poem: “Kansas City Lights” by Jennifer Maritza McCauley – Jerry Jazz Musician
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May 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thank you, Jerry Jazz Musician! <3 www.jerryjazzmusician.com/the-sunday-p...
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Happy birthday, Jennifer Maritza McCauley! Celebrate by reading these McCauley poems we published in BIG OTHER's Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology in 2022! The poems were subsequently published in Kinds of Grace in 2024!
Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social and @maritza4770.bsky.social
Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social and @maritza4770.bsky.social
From the Archives: Five Poems, by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Jennifer Maritza McCauley! Celebrate by reading these McCauley poems we published in Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology in 2022! The poems were subsequen…
bigother.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Happy birthday, Jennifer Maritza McCauley! Celebrate by reading these McCauley poems we published in BIG OTHER's Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology in 2022! The poems were subsequently published in Kinds of Grace in 2024!
Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social and @maritza4770.bsky.social
Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social and @maritza4770.bsky.social
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Happy birthday, Jennifer Maritza McCauley! Celebrate by reading these McCauley poems we published in BIG OTHER's Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology in 2022! The poems were subsequently published in Kinds of Grace in 2024!
Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social and @maritza4770.bsky.social
Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social and @maritza4770.bsky.social
From the Archives: Five Poems, by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Jennifer Maritza McCauley! Celebrate by reading these McCauley poems we published in Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology in 2022! The poems were subsequen…
bigother.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Happy birthday, Jennifer Maritza McCauley! Celebrate by reading these McCauley poems we published in BIG OTHER's Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology in 2022! The poems were subsequently published in Kinds of Grace in 2024!
Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social and @maritza4770.bsky.social
Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social and @maritza4770.bsky.social