Mónica Gomery is a rabbi and poet. Her work explores queerness, diaspora, ancestry, theology, and cultivating courageous hearts.

Her second collection, Might Kindred, won the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry, judged by Kwame Dawes, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Hilda Raz, and was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2022.

She is also the author of the poetry collection Here is the Night and the Night on the Road (Cooper Dillon Books, 2018), and the chapbook Of Darkness and Tumbling (YesYes Books, 2017).  Her poems have been awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, Sappho Prize for Women Poets and the Minola Review Poetry Contest. She is a Tin House Workshop alum, has received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, 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.

Mónica serves as Rabbi and Music Director at Kol Tzedek Synagogue and on the faculty of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva. She is also 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.