Description
Poetry. Literary Criticism. Music. Art. COME AS YOU ARE is a collection of poetry and short prose celebrating 90s pop culture. With work from Francesca Lia Block, Allison Joseph, Chen Chen, Danez Smith, Stephanie Kuehnert, and others, this anthology is nostalgia, remembrance, and protest.
Authors include: Allison Joseph, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Randon Billings Noble, Sarah Lilius, Katie Darby Mullins, Sarah Ann Winn, Ivy Alvarez, Gayle Brandeis, Kristen Figgins, Jasmine An, Danez Smith, Kenyatta JP Garcia, P. Scott Cunningham, Jennifer Macbain-Stephens, Joanna C. Valente, Sarah Frances Moran, Jennifer Shomburg Kanke, Hope Wabuke, Anthony Frame, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Shloka Shankar, t.j. peters, Frenchie Lee Thomspon, Tara Betts, Stephanie Kuehnert, Ellen Kombiyil, Elizabeth Knapp, Timothy Liu, Rani Baker, Majda Gama, Francesca Lia Block, Caseyrené Lopez, Cameron Schneberger, Chen Chen, Cathleen Conway, Sarah Nichols, Sheila Squillante, Bree Rolfe, Stacey Balkun, Tanis Macdonald, Tammy Bendetti, Melissa Fite Johnson, Sa'iyda Shabazz
Author Bio
E. Kristin Anderson is a poet, Prince fan, Starbucks connoisseur, and glitter enthusiast living in Austin, Texas. A Connecticut College graduate with a BA in classics, Kristin has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She the co-editor of Dear Teen Me and her next anthology, Hysteria: Writing the female body, is forthcoming from Sable Books. She is the curator of COME AS YOU ARE (Anomalous Press, 2017), an anthology of writing on 90s pop culture. Her writing has been published worldwide in magazines and anthologies, and she is the author of seven chapbooks of poetry including A Guide for the Practical Abductee (Red Bird Chapbooks), Pray Pray Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night (Porkbelly Press), Fire in the Sky (Grey Book Press), and We're Doing Witchcraft (Hermeneutic Chaos Press). Kristin is an editor and designer at Red Paint Hill and was formerly a poetry editor at Found Poetry Review. Once upon a time she worked the night shift at The New Yorker. She now works during daylight as a freelance editor and writing coach. She blogs at EKristinAnderson.com and tweets at @ek_anderson.
Author City: AUSTIN, TX USA