Jael Montellano

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🏳️‍🌈(she/they) | Mexican ESL writer | Interview Editor at Hypertext Mag | Words at Hayden’s Ferry Review, Psaltery & Lyre, POET LORE, La Piccioletta Barca, ANMLY Lit, Tint Journal, Beyond Queer Words, The Selkie. www.jaelmontellano.com

Volume 120 of Poet Lore Magazine, with its red-polka dotted cover, lying atop a wooden table beside a leafy plant.
Title card reading “My mother dreams of whiteness” with an image of turquoise-colored ice, under which reads the poet’s name Jael Montellano
Photograph of Jael Montellano with blue hair holding a contributor copy of Poet Lore Magazine Volume 120, with its polka dotted red cover.
Blue-lit full moon behind clouds half-illuminated
Orange buds and blossoms amid lily pads in a Chinese-ink-style painting.
Ink painting of Tang Chinese ladies dressed in hanfu outdoors under the light of the moon playing music.
Screenshot of website Oprah Daily featuring the cover of Bonnie Jo Campbell’s THE WATERS, the numeral 1 and text reading ‘The Most Immersive Books of 2024.’
Ink painting depicting a mountain top with trees, flying birds and a waterfall through hazy dusk clouds, by Li Xiongcai
Yayoi Kusama’s giant glowing lit-up polka-dot pumpkin amidst Shanghai’s harbor at dusk.
Ink painting by Li Xueming depicting figures on a mountain. In the foreground black stones fading upwards into mist.
Gina Chung, a Korean American writer with dark hair streaked with a mint green dye, wearing a white blouse standing outdoors near green water.