In Which Miscarriage Teaches Me About Rest
April 16th, 2026 | by Tatiana Johnson-Boria
Rest isn’t solely something to do, it’s something that relies on dismantling our systems of oppression.
About Tatiana Johnson-Boria
Tatiana Johnson-Boria
Tatiana Johnson-Boria (she/her) is the author of Nocturne in Joy (2023), winner of the 2024 Julia Ward Howe Book Prize in Poetry. As an educator, artist, facilitator, and mother; she uses her writing practice to dismantle racism, reckon with trauma, cultivate healing, and to explore the complex magic of mothering. She has received fellowships and awards from Tin House, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, The MacDowell Residency, among others. Tatiana is a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee, teaches at GrubStreet, and has been on faculty at Emerson College, among other institutions. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Seventh Wave Magazine, ONLYPoems, The Academy of American Poets, Kenyon Review, and more.