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Join Monika Zobel, Author of An Instrument for Leaving at AWP 2018!

About An Instrument for Leaving

by Monika Zobel
Sippe Editions
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“Just as the Bertolt Brecht the book invokes, Monika Zobel’s AN INSTRUMENT FOR LEAVING sings to us of the dark and abundant pain of living, the very sadness of being, the wonder of the colorful objects of life, and everything else that makes electric joy and electric pain the twin pleasures of living.”—Dorothea Lasky Purchase An Instrument for Leaving.

About Monika Zobel

Monika Zobel is the author of a book of poems, An Instrument for Leaving, selected by Dorothea Lasky for the 2013 Slope Editions Book Prize (Slope Editions, 2014). Her poems and translations have appeared in Bayou Magazine, The Cincinnati Review, Four Way Review, Redivider, DIAGRAM, Beloit Poetry Journal, Mid-American Review, Drunken Boat, Guernica Magazine, West Branch, Best New Poets 2010, and elsewhere. She is a Senior Editor at The California Journal of Poetics—an online journal for poetry, criticism, reviews, and interviews—and the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Austria. Monika currently lives in Bremen, Germany.

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Join Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Author of The Bear Who Ate the Stars at AWP 2018!

About The Bear Who Ate the Stars

by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Split Lip Press
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"There's a wonderful range to Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach's poems, rendered all the more remarkable by their consistent depth and polish. These poems feel meticulously crafted, despite a certain primal, sometimes sensual quality often falsely seen as antithetical to intellectual poetry. These poems smell of stars and campfires, a deeper sense of story, a mythological thread running, river-like, all the way back to the dawn of time." -Poet Michael Meyerhofer (Blue Collar Eulogies, Damnatio Memoriae)

The Bear Who Ate the Stars, winner of the 2014 Split Lip Uppercut Chapbook Awards, is a collection of poems that bite like sharpened nails and enlighten with historical, spiritual and political accounts. Purchase The Bear Who Ate the Stars.

About Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon and is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania where her research focuses on contemporary American poetry related to the Holocaust. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review Online, and Narrative Magazine, among others. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf and TENT Conferences as well as the Auschwitz Jewish Center. Julia is the author of The Bear Who Ate the Stars, winner of Split Lip Magazine's 2014 Uppercut Chapbook Award. She is also Editor-in-Chief of Construction Magazine.

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Join Raegen Pietrucha, Author of An Animal I Can’t Name at AWP 2018!

About An Animal I Can’t Name

by Raegen Pietrucha
Two of Cups Press
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“Raegen Pietrucha’s devastatingly moving chapbook, An Animal I Can’t Name, is a collection of well-crafted and language-rich poems. … Pietrucha’s work is graphic and gorgeous without falling over the cliff of sentimentality.”

—Lori Desrosiers, publisher of Naugatuck River Review and author of The Philosopher’s Daughter, Inner Sky, Three Vanities, and Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak

“The artistry of this collection goes well beyond theme. The control about childhood recollected in adulthood is remarkable.”

—Nettie Farris, author of Communion, Fat Crayons, and The Wendy Bird Poems

An Animal I Can’t Name is a narrative in poems that details a young woman’s survival of sexual and psychological abuse. This feminist, survivor-centric work seeks to empower readers through its unabashed examination of modern-day family life, religion, labels, and the implications of each. Purchase Book

About Raegen Pietrucha

Raegen Pietrucha writes, edits, and consults on professional and creative bases. Her poetry chapbook, An Animal I Can’t Name, took first place in the 2015 Two of Cups Press’ competition. While pursuing her MFA at Bowling Green State University, she served on the staff of Mid-American Review literary magazine. As communications director for UNLV’s Division of Research and Economic Development, she serves as editor-in-chief of Innovation magazine. She has more than a hundred professional bylines. Contact her at raegenmp.wordpress.com.