Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo

Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo is a writer of poetry and nonfiction. His recent work can be found in The Yale Review, ZYZZYVA, The Believer, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, among other venues. He has received fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, The Fulbright Commission, and Brown University. At present, Ricardo is finishing a debut book of poems.

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

Theory, Poetry Northwest (2025)

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)