Alexa T. Dodd is a writer of Mexican and Polish heritage, a native of Texas, and a mother of two. Her work was the winner of the Puerto del Sol Prose Contest, a semi-finalist in the Nimrod Literary Awards, and has appeared in Literary Hub, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. She’s a Tin House Summer Workshop alumnus, a recipient of a Hypatia-in-the-Woods residency for women artists, and she holds a master’s in Creative Writing from Texas Tech University. She is represented by Trident Media Group for a speculative, magical realist novel.
Most girls bleed. “A visitor,” Mama and my tias had called it for years, their shared and groaned secret, like a pesky neighbor arriving too often. “Someday, you too,” they’d promised. When I awoke to the twisting in my center, a foreign pain that was somehow familiar, I thought I was no different. I was […]