Jeff’s Auto
The sagging steel door scrapes across concrete as you and Momma step into Jeff’s Auto Shop. The ever-present gallery of girlie posters are suspended in a haze of cigarette smoke and engine fumes. Women lounge…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Aria Dominguez (she/they) is a writer whose poetry and creative nonfiction navigate the terrain between beauty and pain. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize, and she was the winner of the 2021 Porch Prize in Creative Nonfiction, a Fall 2021 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship, the 2022 Sunlight Press Essay Contest, a 2023 Money for Women Nonfiction Award, and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant. Aria works with a nonprofit focused on food justice and lives in Saint Paul with her son.
The sagging steel door scrapes across concrete as you and Momma step into Jeff’s Auto Shop. The ever-present gallery of girlie posters are suspended in a haze of cigarette smoke and engine fumes. Women lounge…