Mónica Gomery is a rabbi and writer. Her third collection of poems was selected by Ilya Kaminsky for the Helena Whitehill Book Award and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. 

Her other books include Might Kindred, winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), Here is the Night and the Night on the Road (Cooper Dillon Books, 2018), and the chapbook Of Darkness and Tumbling (YesYes Books, 2017).  

Mónica’s poems have been awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, the Sappho Prize for Women Poets and the Minola Review Poetry Contest. She is a Tin House Workshop alum, has received residencies and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Sundress Academy for the Arts, and has been featured on The Slowdown podcast. Recent poems appear in The Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, The Massachusetts Review, and West Branch, among other journals.

She serves as Rabbi and Music Director at Kol Tzedek Synagogue and taught on the faculty of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva from 2015-2024. Mónica is a co-founder of Let My People Sing! With the writer Moriel Rothman-Zecher she currently hosts the 5-3-5 poetry salon in Philadelphia. She is grateful to work with incredible teams of people on these projects committed to intergenerational healing and cultural, political, and spiritual transformation.