Monica Colón
Poet, educator, sensitivity reader, nerd ✨🌈🐲 She/her/ella
About
Monica Colón is a Salvadoran/American writer from Texas. Her poems have appeared in SWWIM Every Day, The Dodge, Honey Literary, West Trestle Review, and elsewhere. She has received a Pushcart Prize nomination, a Best of the Net nomination, and the Iris N. Spencer Sonnet Award from West Chester University Poetry Center.
Monica has a B.A. in English Literature and Spanish from Wheaton College (IL). There, she developed an interest in the intersection of race, dis/ability, and linguistic justice in teaching writing. She is currently based in Chicago and works as a bilingual literacy tutor for Chicago Public Schools.
Selected Poems
"Self-portrait as yerbabuena" and "In Balcones Canyonlands" - forthcoming from Boshemia Magazine, 2023
"In This One, Tio Conejo Never Learned to be a Trickster" - Honey Literary, August 2023
"The Gatekeeper's Haibun" - The Dodge, July 2023
"March in Querétaro" - pg. 70 of home/liminal spaces, the winnow magazine, November 2022
"Self Portrait as St. Joseph" - West Trestle Review, September 2022
"The Christian Therapist Asks Me About My Life Purpose" - SWWIM Every Day, August 2022
"Ode to Apostasy" and "Bible College Ghazal" - fifth wheel press blog, August 2022
"Sun Eaters" - "the truth is in the stars" anthology, fifth wheel press, July 2022
"Lincoln Marsh Triptych" - Paddler Press, August 2021
"Summer at the Wetlands" - Susurrus, July 2021
"January Spring" - West Chester Poetry Center, May 2021 (under "2021" tab)
Other Projects
"Contact-Tracing War and Peace: A Critical Experiment in Social Network Analysis" - coauthored with Dr. Richard Gibson, Russian Literature, July 2023
Wheaton College Writing Center blog - designed, built, and edited by Monica from 2020-21
Reading Little Women - blog for a Wheaton College class, built and managed by Monica in 2020
Get in touch
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