“Zeny May Recidoro makes a compelling debut with I am a Wound Shrouded in Devotion, a collection of poems and stories on modern hauntings and the many ways people create or sever their emotional connections to this denuded world. I am a Wound Shrouded in Devotion packs an eclectic gamut of hybrid poetic texts and other short narrative forms, both experimental and traditional, including prose poems, vignettes, and flash fictions on the various places and bodies we inhabit, on the nebulous logic of the fantastic and the suburban mundane, on the lyricism of the surreal and the lost pastoral. “Grounded within herself, she knew her interior life/ was the exoskeleton with which she met the world,” Recidoro writes in a voice that vacillates between tenderness and ferocity. A solid, captivating first book.”

Kristine Ong Muslim, Author, Editor, and Translator