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Christina Rivera Cogswell

Christina Rivera Cogswell is a Pushcart Prize-winning essayist whose work has appeared in Orion, Terrain.org, Bat City Review, and elsewhere. Her debut book, MY OCEANS: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women is forthcoming from Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press in the spring of 2025.

Nonfiction

July/Aug 2022

Two Breaths

By Christina Rivera Cogswell

You would not believe in the existence of a manta ray until you’ve seen one. She’s nearly a creature of mythology, with underwater arms that can span twentyish feet from […]