Christian Paulisich graduated from Johns Hopkins University, where he worked on The Hopkins Review. He works as a therapist in Northern Maryland, but is originally from the Bay Area, California. He was recently chosen as an honorable mention for the 2024 Gulf Coast Prize for Poetry and a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s 2024 Nature & Place Contest, and received a Summer 2024 fellowship from Brooklyn Poets. His work has been published in or is forthcoming from The Southeast Review, Salamander, Frontier, Literary Matters, Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, fourteen poems, and other magazines. He currently reads poetry submissions for Palette Poetry.
You hit the jackpot and I was angry at you. Lucky, lucky you. I forgot about your mother’s tumor, the fingertip edging the light switch of her pituitary gland.
