Mónica Gomery

Mónica Gomery is a rabbi and writer. Her third collection of poems was selected by Ilya Kaminsky for the Helena Whitehill Book Award and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Her other books include Might Kindred, winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), and Here is the Night and the Night on the Road (Cooper Dillon Books, 2018), as well as the chapbook Of Darkness and Tumbling (YesYes Books, 2017). Her poems have been awarded the American Poetry Review's Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, Palette Poetry's Sappho Prize for Women Poets and the Minola Review Poetry Contest. She is a Tin House Workshop alum, has received residencies and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Sundress Academy for the Arts, and has been featured on The Slowdown podcast. Recent poems appear in The Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, The Massachusetts Review, and West Branch, among other journals. She currently lives in Philadelphia.