Brenna Womer

Broschiertes Buch

Unbrained

Beschreibung

Brenna Womer's latest cross-genre collection examines what Layli Long Soldier calls "unbrained things." In her poem "Head Count," Long Soldier names hormones, nursing, sleeping, night, and blood. In Womer's collection, she adds shedding, shitting, birthing, fucking, flying, and more to the list. In the titular hybrid essay, "Unbrained," first published by Honey Literary, Womer considers her recent Bipolar diagnosis by a psychiatric nurse with whom she had a single appointment and never saw again. In the closing essay, "Thick Like Me," which won NELLE's Three Sister's Prize for Creative Nonfiction, Womer grapples with a matrilineal legacy of relentless identity-seeking and what of her Mexican heritage she can claim after growing up in whitewashed familial spaces and on U.S. military bases. In her poetry, prose, and hybrid work throughout, Womer interrogates ownership and indulges appetite; she presses through the softness of fur and fat to the hot core of animal innocence. On every page, she asks what's fair but always comes up empty.

Autor

Brenna Womer (she/they) is a queer, childfree, Latine prose writer, poet, artist, and professor of creative writing, literature, and publishing. She is the author of Honeypot (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019) and two chapbooks, cost of living (Finishing Line Press, 2022) and Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance (C&R Press, 2018). Her creative writing, craft, reviews, and interviews have been published in North American Review, Redivider, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, The Pinch, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Brenna is a contributing interviewer for SmokeLong Quarterly and has held editorial positions at Moon City Review & Press, Passages North, Story Magazine, and Shenandoah, where, last year, she served as interim Editor-in-Chief and is now Creative Nonfiction Editor. Brenna holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Michigan University, where she was a recipient of the King-Chávez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship and two Excellence in Education research grants for her creative work. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Best American anthologies, with her essay "Wüsthof Silverpoint II 10-Piece Set" being named a Notable in Best American Essays 2017, edited by Leslie Jamison. Most recently, an essay about her mixed heritage, "Thick Like Me," won NELLE's Three Sisters Prize for Creative Nonfiction.Raised on military bases across the US and overseas, Brenna often explores themes of home and belonging in her creative work, which is frequently experimental.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: FlowerSong Press
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 123g
• ISBN-13: 9781953447265
• ISBN-10: 1953447260
• Artikelnr.: 69708989