Jose Medina Non-Member Joined 2017

Poet, Playwright, Novelilst

Fiction Poetry Nonfiction

José Enrique Medina is a queer Chicano poet, playwright, and novelist. His debut poetry collection, Only the Dead Let Me Talk This Much, won the 2026 Lambda Literary J. Michael Samuel Prize. His chapbook Haunt Me won the 2025 Rattle Chapbook Prize, and Man Without a Skirt was selected by Ellen Bass as the runner-up for the 2025 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. His work has appeared in USA Today Hispanic Living Magazine, Los Angeles Review, Best Microfiction 2019, and elsewhere. A VONA fellow, he is the founder of the Chickens & Poetry Residency for Writers. Connect with him on Instagram @MedinaWrites or at MedinaWrites.com.

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Whittier, CA

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