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IT’S NOT A LONELY WORLD: A MEMOIR ON THE EDGE (Trembling Pillow Press, 2022)

Winner, Karen Dunning Scholarly/Creative Activity Award selected by the Women’s & Gender Studies Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

A cross-genre memoir.

Here’s an overview, from my dissertation abstract:

“By exploring a loved one’s and my own unique and, at times, dovetailing experiences with gender, involving illness and queerness, respectively, my work inquires into, and navigates, the myriad ‘rules’ surrounding gendered bodies—namely bodies that, temporarily or lifelong, do not conform to pervasive cultural norms.”

Excerpts appear in the following:

South Dakota Review

Tarpaulin Sky

Fourteen Hills

Cordite Poetry Review

Parcel

The Urge to Believe Is Stronger than Belief Itself (Cherry Pie Press, 2008)

Gender/Genre, appearing in Triple No. 13 (Ravenna Press, 2020)

Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts (Les Femmes Folles, 2017)

Uprooted: An Anthology on Gender and Illness (Obdurate Oaks Press, 2017)

TransNarratives: Scholarly and Creative Works on Transgender Experience (Canadian Scholars/Women’s Press, 2021)