In the tradition of confessional and lyrical poets like Cynthia Cruz, Linda Gregg, Sylvia Plath, and Franz Wright, Another Woman explores female sexuality, anguish, and abjection within the decline of a romantic relationship as well as through biblical, mythical, or pop cultural figures such as Delilah, Aphrodite, or Karen Carpenter.
In Don’t Take This the Wrong Way, Magowan and Ross probe the stories we tell each other and ourselves. Through precise prose, deep affection, wry humor, and a measure of snark, Magowan and Ross invite readers to recognize how lonely, petty, yet hopeful people are, and how desperately they want to be properly understood.
Michel-Cassidy’s stories are born of the mountain areas in the American Southwest, and they depict the lesser-known lives of characters who discover, reckon with, and often seek to escape the mostly rural landscapes that made them.
