Enza García Arreaza (b. 1987, Venezuela) is a short-fiction writer and poet, author of Cállate poco a poco (2008), El bosque de los abedules (2010), Plegarias para un zorro (2012), El animal intacto (2015), and Cosmonauta (2020). In 2017 she was a resident at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and at the Pittsburgh City of Asylum. During 2018 and 2020 she was a Fellow at the International Writers Project for endangered writers at Brown University.
Only I never came back
I was not going to be long
—W. S. Merwin
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I live where Lady Gaga files her taxes
where the police
do as they please
where this paleface multitud…