Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo

Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo is a writer of poetry and nonfiction. His recent work can be found in ZYZZYVA, 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). At present, Ricardo is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. He is at work on a poetry collection, and nonfiction book which is historical in nature.

Selected Writing

Essay and Criticism

A World Bent Toward Degradation, Los Angeles Review of Books (2024)

A Review of The Delivery, The Believer (2023)

A Review of In Vitro, The Believer (2023)

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

Remarks on Illiteracy, ZYZZYVA (2025)

El Tío, ZYZZYVA (2025)

Range Life, The Yale Review (2024)

Epilogue, The Yale Review (2024)

Variation on Bridge as Metaphor, The Adroit Journal (2023)

Listen

The New York Times Modern Love Podcast

Why Can’t Men Say I Love You to Each Other? Voiced by Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa

Listen here and read the original essay, selected in the 2019 Modern Love College Essay Contest, here.

(2019)

The Believer Radio

CDMX Love Songs (A DJ Set in Response to a Review of Amor Muere)

Listen here and read the original review here.

(Other criticism for The Believer can be found here.)

(2024)