Recognition

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.

Recognition Home Ghosts I Can See the Loveliness in Your Teeth Days Left Gemelo Friendship Black Planet Help! I'm Fine Jacob Under God Cut, We've Got It The Animal Sees Its Own Face Internet Guys Wingman Puerto Rican Manic Pixie Dream Girl (or Rather Thalia's Song) An Enchanted Evening Where You Are Going, I Have Been Ghostward Acknowledgments

"Recognition is a tremendous work that incisively dissects racism and its deleterious effects on people who simply want to live their lives. Each story weaves an affective, heartbreaking web, and each character is carefully and sensitively drawn such that they jump off the page. An incredibly powerful collection that often let me with my mouth open, holding my aching heart." - Vanessa K. Valdes, author of Oshun's Daughters