"Jo Brachman's collection, Prayers to a Small Stone, is wonderfully titled, and its poems... know no boundaries, no maps, no roads, no signposts, and talk in a dream tongue that bears no translation."
--Frank X. Gaspar
Jo Brachman's Prayers to a Small Stone won the 2024 Cider Press Review Book Award. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Best New Poets, Cimarron Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Cortland Review, Poet Lore, among others. A recipient of the Fulbright (2022), Brachman's research at Lund University (Sweden) focused on the Witnessing Genocide archives concerning the German concentration camp, Ravensbrück, built specifically for the incarceration of women. Her current research encompasses the lives and the writings of the women who were interned there. Her poetry translations can be found in Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation.
