“One day, you will find me climbing
a stool in the Galleria Borghese, stretching
until my body/my face/my breasts/the notch
in my hip above where hands settle
presses Daphne’s.”
Leigh Camacho Rourks is a Cuban-American author who lives and works
in Central Florida, where she is an Assistant Professor of English and
Humanities at Beacon College. She is the recipient of the St. Lawrence Book
Award, the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and the Robert Watson
Literary Review Prize, and her work has been shortlisted for several other
awards. Her fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in a number of
journals, including Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, TriQuarterly,
December Magazine, and Greensboro Review.