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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, as well as 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 drom 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

1. Roggenbuck, Steve; Scott, E. E.; Younghans, Rachel, eds. (Apr 2014). The YOLO Pages. Boost House. p. 51. ISBN 978-0996069106.
2. Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (2014). I'm Alive/It Hurts/i Love it. Boost House. ISBN 9780996069113. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
3. "Jennifer Espinoza". Occidental College. 2021-08-09. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
4. Magazine, Poetry (2019-06-21). "Birthday Suits by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
5. "Five Poems by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza". PEN America. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
6. "A Poem by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza". Lambda Literary. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
7. "It Is Important To Be Something". The Offing. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
8. Espinoza, Joshua Jennifer. "A Love/Hate Relationship". Shabby Doll House. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 11 Feb 2015.
9. "wind poems". Electric Cereal. 22 Jan 2015. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 11 Feb 2015.
10. "untitled poem". 17 September 2019.
11. "Joshua Jennifer Espinoza". The Rumpus.net. Retrieved 2022-02-22.

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

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