Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (born December 17, 1987) is an American poet from Riverside, California. She is a Visiting Professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.
Espinoza's works have been published in Poetry Magazine, PEN America, Lambda Literary, The Offing, Shabby Doll House, Electric Cereal, Voicemail Poems, and The Rumpus.
Espinoza's work covers topics like mental illness, coming out as a transgender woman, and universal themes like love, grief, anger, and beauty. Her poems often take a tender yet searing tone, yoking together personal experiences of loss with a sense of fullness underscored by abstract metaphors drawing from both urban and rural environments.
Bibliography
- i'm alive / it hurts / i love it. Boost House. 2014 ISBN 9780996069113
- THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS. Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016. ISBN 9781937865733
- Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope. Big Lucks Books. 2018. ISBN 9781941985830
- I'm Alive. It Hurts. I Love It. (Second Edition) Big Lucks Books. 2019. ISBN 9781941985304
- I Don't Want To Be Understood. 2024. Alice James Books. ISBN 9781949944631
References
External links
- THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS, book review at goodreads.com
- Interview, at upthestaircase.org
- The shared experiences of poetry with Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, at thecreativeindependent.com
