appeared in The Idaho Review, The Rumpus, StorySouth, PANK, and elsewhere, and have received numerous Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. She’s an alum of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House Writers Workshop, and Lit Camp. In 2021 she is a regular contributor to Ploughshares Blog. Her first novel, Mona At Sea, was a finalist in the 2019 SFWP Literary Awards judged by Carmen Maria Machado, and is out now from Santa Fe Writers Project.
At Electric Lit Gonzalez James tagged nine stories about struggling under capitalism, including:
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess WalterRead about another entry on the list.
Matt Prior has sunk all his family’s money into the failing venture, poetfolio.com, a dubious concept linking free verse poetry with financial advice, and now he faces imminent ruin. So he does what any middle aged unemployed man does: he starts selling pot. Walter uses self-deprecating humor and a critical eye to skewer late-stage capitalism, and the kind of lunacy that would drive someone to marry poetry and finance.
--Marshal Zeringue
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