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Cloud Delfina Cardona (she/they) is an artist, writer, and book cover designer from San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of What Remains, winner of the Host Publications Chapbook Prize. She is the co-founder of Infrarrealista Review, a literary nonprofit that publishes Texan voices. Their poetry can be found in The Offing, Prairie Schooner, The Boiler, The Los Angeles Review, and more. She currently works as an associate for Letras Latinas and moonlights as DJ Mexistentialism. She believes in a free Palestine.
“A mastery of the understated, an effortless shot to the heart. Within these pages I feel Courtney Love, I taste nicotine/lip gloss, and I see a writer who is in full control. This book will give you what you want, because sometimes we desperately need to be devastated, or in love, or to disappear.” —Amber Isaac, author of Peppermint “Cloud Delfina Cardona's the past is a jean jacket is wondrous, a cross-faded dream state of poetic exploration, playfulness, and talent that could only come out of San Anto. Cardona eschews nostalgia for the real and honest, ruminating on pop culture of yesteryear, the tías in our lives, and the Texas sky to ask devastating questions laced with melancholy and love. There is no sugar coating of the past in these poems but affectionate and blunt explorations of the self that feel vulnerable yet just right. Each poem results in a momentary state of disassociation that segues into new realities, a reborn sense of the self for the speaker and reader. Cardona is our Poet Laureate of Longing; I give my salute.” —Reyes Ramirez, author of El Rey of Gold Teeth
