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)

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)