Carissa Jiarong Chen is from California. Her work appears in The Tupelo Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, and BOAAT Journal. She is pursuing a PhD in economics and a JD, and she is a recent graduate from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
Poetry
Fall 2024
My Mother’s American Reincarnation Myth
1.I baptize my mother in the laundry machine in an overripe summer. I cradle her hands in the round metal basin my mother once martyred into my childhood lamp. She […]