Mónica Gomery

Mónica Gomery (she/her) is the author of Might Kindred (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize; Here Is the Night and the Night on the Road (Cooper Dillon Books, 2018); and the chapbook Of Darkness and Tumbling (YesYes Books, 2017). Her poems have won the Sappho Prize for Women Poets and the Minola Review Poetry Contest, and have been featured on the Poetry Foundation’s Poem of the Day, Ours Poetica, and The Slowdown podcast. In 2022, the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center created a limited edition chapbook of Gomery’s new work for their Poets in Print series. Her poems have been published in The Kenyon Review, Four Way Review, Poetry Northwest, Adroit Journal, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, and West Branch, among other journals.

Gomery was raised in Boston and Caracas by her Venezuelan Jewish family, and she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on unceded Lenni Lenape land. She was ordained as a rabbi by the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in 2017 and currently serves on the clergy team at Kol Tzedek Synagogue and on the faculty of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva. With the writer Moriel Rothman-Zecher, she hosts the 5-3-5 poetry salon in Philadelphia.