Gina Tomaine is a Philadelphia-based writer and editor, and a lecturer in composition and literature at Saint Joseph’s University. She earned her MFA from Emerson College in Boston on a Presidential Fellowship. She has been published in The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Complex magazine, Entropy magazine, and Philadelphia magazine, among others. She […]
Gina Tomaine
Gina Tomaine: Bastille Day, Philadelphia
I backed into you, eyes closed and reeling. When I opened up we were already far gone— rambling nothings about velociraptors and Moon River, and the way Humphrey Bogart kissed Ingrid Bergman. You sped your blue bike past our first kiss. Came back, hands on my waist, hands in my long dirty blonde hair, me […]
Gina Tomaine: Bastille Day, Philadelphia
I backed into you, eyes closed and reeling. When I opened up we were already far gone— rambling nothings about velociraptors and Moon River, and the way Humphrey Bogart kissed Ingrid Bergman. You sped your blue bike past our first kiss. Came back, hands on my waist, hands in my long dirty blonde hair, me […]
Gina Tomaine
Gina Tomaine is a Philadelphia-based writer and editor, and a lecturer in composition and literature at Saint Joseph’s University. She earned her MFA from Emerson College in Boston on a Presidential Fellowship. She has been published in The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Complex magazine, Entropy magazine, and Philadelphia magazine, among others. She […]