Meesh Montoya
is a cyborg librarian
from New York
​who writes fiction and poetry.

She lives in the Bronx
​and is working on her second novel.

Publications
(Note: Some works are published as Michelle Fernandez)

Poetry

• "Elegy for Avon Beyond Color Lipstick in Beige Shimmer, Discontinued"
  Monstering (January 2022)
• Fire Escape Poems (Summer 2020)
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• "Puerto Oscuro"
  Yellow Arrow Vol. V., No. 1 Resilience (Winter 2020)
• "Nickels" ​ ​
  ​Sleet (December 2019)
• "You Do the Math" and "The History of Puerto Rico"
  ​Boricua en la Luna: Puerto Rican Voices (December 2019)
• "I Knew"
  Writers Resist (February 2019)
• "Dramamine" and "Operant Conditioning"
  Albany Poets (March 2016)
• "Sherman Alexie Signed My Book"
  Wordgathering (September 2014)
• "Watching the Sunset Through an Indeterminate Number of Eyes"
  Wordgathering (December 2012)
• "Cyborg's Lament"
  Wordgathering (September 2011)
• "You Must Not Ask for So Much" (Prose-Poem)
  Tonguas (May 2011)

Short Prose

• "On Sea Level Rise Inside and Outside my Head"
  Sisyphus (October 2018)
• "Repayment Plan"
  Call and Response (September 2018)

• ​"The Pedestrians"
  ​Novella-T (September 2014)

Excerpts

• "Just Before She Told Him No" (Excerpt from Eminent Domain)
  Life Plus 2 Meters, Volume 2 (January 2018)
• Eminent Domain (Excerpt)
  Wordgathering (September 2017)