Stevie Edwards
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"I had a physical reaction, the nodding and head-shaking and eye-closing and deep breaths that come when I read a wonderful poem. I made a lot of those motions as I read this collection, and I was grateful for its tackling of life's sadness and uncertainty."
-Gretchen Primack
Reviewer for PANK MAGAZINE
-Gretchen Primack
Reviewer for PANK MAGAZINE
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"When you read Stevie Edwards' words, every organ in your body will feel like it is shutting down...Edwards is taking all the oxygen with these poems...and it hurts so good."
-Mahogany L. Browne Poet, Performer, & Publisher |
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"Here is the soundtrack to a young woman discovering her ability to be human, to be equal parts fucked up and beautiful."
-J.W. Basilo Author & Performer |
"A thrilling debut of voice-driven poems from a poet wracked by her vision of the world as it is in all its lowly grit and open air."
-Jericho Brown
Author of Please
-Jericho Brown
Author of Please
Stevie Edwards currently resides in Ithaca, NY, where she is an MFA candidate in creative writing at Cornell University. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Good Grief, was released by Write Bloody Publishing in April 2012 and received the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Prize for Poetry. Her latest chapbook, Atomic Girl, is forthcoming from Tired Hearts Press. She is the editor-in-chief of MUZZLE Magazine, editor of 4th & Verse Books, assistant editor of EPOCH, and a proud alumna of Chicago's Real Talk Avenue. She has work published and forthcoming in Verse Daily, Rattle, Indiana Review, Devil's Lake, Southern Indiana Review, PANK, Vinyl, Juked, and Aim for the Head: An Anthology of Zombie Poetry. Edwards is a Michigander.
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