Vanessa Couto JohnsonVanessa Couto Johnson's Try the yen relish, a sixteen- page prose poem sequence, was released in a first BoxSet from Oxidant Engine in early 2018. Softblow, Thrush, Field, Blackbird, Cheat River Review, Cream City Review, and other journals ave featured her poetry. Her third chapbook, speech rinse, won Slope Editions' 2016 Chapbook Contest; her second chapbook is rotoscoping collage in Cork City (dancing girl press, 2016); and her first chapbook, Life of Francis, won Gambling the Aisle's 2014 Chapbook Contest. A Brazilian born in Texas (dual citizen) and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she is currently a Lecturer at Texas State University, where she earned her MFA. Read More Read Less