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Jessica Abughattas

California

Jessica Abughattas is the author of Strip (University of Arkansas Press, 2020), winner of the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. From 2020 to 2022, Abughattas was the poet laureate of Altadena, California and the editor of Altadena Poetry Review. She has received a Kundiman fellowship, and received her MFA from Antioch University.

By Jessica Abughattas

Column 896

Watching My Mother