Jennifer Maritza McCauley is the author of SCAR ON/SCAR OFF (Stalking Horse Press), When Trying to Return Home (Counterpoint),  Kinds of Grace (Flower Song)  and the forthcoming speculative fiction collection NEON STEEL (Cornerstone) and the poetry collections VERSUS (Texas Review Press) and Tumbao (Texas Review Press). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kimbilio and CantoMundo and her work has been a New York Times Editors’ Choice, Best Fiction Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and a Must-Read by Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine and Southern Review of Books. She is faculty at Yale Writers’ Workshop and an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.