Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo
Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo is a writer of poetry and nonfiction. His work can be found in The New York Times, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Believer, and The Yale Review, among other venues. He has received fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, The Fulbright Commission, and la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where he was previously a Profesor de Asignatura (Lecturer). This fall, Ricardo will begin a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. He is also beginning work on his first book: the incomplete biography of a volcano.
Selected Writing
Essay and Criticism
Dear McSweeney’s, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern (2022)
Showering in Raincoats, The Believer (2022)
Forget-Me-Not, The Believer (2022)
Omayra, The Rumpus (2021) Notable Work, Best American Essays 2022
Poetry
Epilogue, The Yale Review (2024)
Variation on Bridge as Metaphor, The Adroit Journal (2023)
Abattoir, Wildness (2022)
Conversations
The Heaviness of History: A Conversation with Justin Torres, ZYZZYVA Magazine (2023)
Joy Harjo and Her Poetencies, National Book Critics Circle (2023)