Fia Montero Poetry

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Fia Montero is a writer based in Des Moines, Iowa. She holds a BFA in Art and Design from Iowa State University, and a BSHS in Health Science from Mercy College of Health Sciences. She is the author of the chapbook Everything but the Bones (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025). Her work has also appeared in Harbor Review, Passengers Journal, The Minnesota Review, and others.

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  • Requiem

    *** Thackeray said something like: Mother is the name for God on the lips and in the hearts of little children. What name, then, should my lips murmur, now? She is ash and I am godless. *** The others recite prayers at the funeral, I think. Instead, I name the flowers spread across the room:…

  • Everything but the Bones

    I. Stacked exactly in the center of my bed: vertebrae, clavicles, ribs.   Leftover pieces of me.  See, all the rest has been burnished away, which is to say I’ve been reduced to mineral and marrow. II. I’ve lost myself again, somehow, in the liminal yawn, the pallid hollow, the place that swallows everything but…

  • Chapbook Debut

    Hello, poetry lovers! Fia Montero’s Everything but the Bones is a striking debut chapbook that feels both ephemeral and enduring — like breath fog on glass that somehow leaves a permanent mark. Published by the ever-intimate Seven Kitchens Press as part of the Allison Joseph Series (which champions emerging BIPOC voices), Montero’s collection fits seamlessly…