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Tere Dávila
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Tere Dávila
Photograph © Luis Marin
Tere Dávila ​​​​​​is the winner of two Puerto Rico National Prizes. She is the author of one novel, Nenísimas, and three books of short fiction: Aquí están las instrucciones (both Institute of Puerto Rican Culture), Lego (Isla Negra Editores), and El fondillo maravilloso (Terranova Editores). Her short stories have been published in US and international anthologies and literary magazines. In 2017, she received Puerto Rico’s New Voices Award.

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Numina: The Enchantment Issue
Fall 2023
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March 13, 2024
Ariadne struck the mast

Enraged. She     couldn’t sail, no

One had ever bothered to


Teach her, but the ship wouldn’t

Be still.     She had awoken

To find Thesus dead, his crew


Dead,     and at first she had felt

Relief.     
March 6, 2024
The purged caribou heart. First arctic 
meal prepared raw, before fire. Before fires

purpled meat, meat was ulued off to serve
an open mouth. First heart’s crevasses

stretched like caribou cut raw. Protoheart
raw in search of fire, red windburn revealed
February 28, 2024
For breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On slices of rubbery white bread buttered with margarine so that the marmalade slides under the spreading knife. In the glass jar, the orange jelly with bright shavings of orange peel absorbs light and invites hungry eyes. And so, dreaming of marmalade, the brothers, always in need of sustenance, arrive on a snowy March morning at Heathrow.
The 2019 Shirley Jackson Award winner reads from his work
Monday, March 25, 2024
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Campus Center, Weis Cinema