Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Convirtiéndose en characoteles / Sorcerers Changing into Their Animal Forms (detail), 2013, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection.
Journal for Pomegranates

Jen Siraganian is an Armenian-American writer, educator, and former Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California. The co-winner of the New Ohio Review Poetry Prize, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus. A Lucas Artist Fellow and former managing director of Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival, she has taught in schools and community settings for twenty years. More at jensiraganian.com.(updated 1/2025)