Jennifer Maritza McCauley Author

Jennifer Maritza McCauley is the author of the story collections Scar On / Scar Off, When Trying to Return Home, and Neon Steel as well as the poetry collection Kinds of Grace; her next two poetry collections, Versus and Tumbao, are forthcoming. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kimbilio, and CantoMundo and her work has been named a New York Times Editors' Choice; a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Year; and a Must-Read by Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine, and Southern Review of Books. She serves as faculty at the Yale Writers' Workshop and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.