Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (born December 17, 1987)[1] is an American poet from Riverside, California.
[2] She is a Visiting Professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.
[3] Espinoza's works have been published in Poetry Magazine,[4] PEN America,[5] Lambda Literary,[6] The Offing,[7] Shabby Doll House,[8] Electric Cereal,[9] Voicemail Poems,[10] and The Rumpus.
[11] Espinoza's work covers topics like mental illness, coming out as a transgender woman, and universal themes like love, grief, anger, and beauty.
Her poems often take a tender yet searing tone, yoking together personal experiences of loss with a sense of fullness underscored by abstract metaphors drawing from both urban and rural environments.