Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

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. Provided by Wikipedia