Anthology appearances

In Between Spaces, Stillhouse Press’s first ever anthology, centers the experiences of thirty-three disabled poets, short-story writers, and essayists as they navigate the physical and emotional complexities of disability, chronic illness, neurodivergence, and mental illness. Compiled by an editorial team of disabled writers, this timely collection of often-overlooked voices celebrates joy, freedom, and the power of agency, while at the same time confronting and challenging the stigmas and barriers, visible and invisible, that too often come to define life with a disability.

Excerpt from my personal memoir, Hairline Movement: 

“I inherited my mother’s jaw. Our jaws were whittled away over a generation’s shame. My mother blamed my birth for her reason to stay with an abusive man. I thus bore the double weight from both of their abuse.” 

Hairline Movement – “In Between Spaces: An Anthology of Disabled Writers” Stillhouse Press, November 2022* p. 188-202

 

“This anthology presents a chorus of a deeply disturbing lament at the crisis confronted by humanity now cringing with guilt. … Each poem locates a fresh poetic idiom for the expression of an unprecedented anguish about the degradation of the environment today. In these chiseled and well-sculpted no-nonsense verses, lies the hope for the survival of life. … Count Every Breath edited by Vinita Agrawal is a collective petition presented by poets in the readers’ court for the protection of the living from extinction.”

—Sukrita Paul Kumar, (Poet, Critic, Academic)

Excerpt from my poem, Forsaking Fossils:

Sue’s original semi-crushed skull is bell-jarred
in the previous room. What remains of the bones
dispels Jurassic myths: even if you stood very, 
very still - it would be too late to get away.

Forsaking Fossils – “Count Every Breath: a climate anthology” Hawakal, May 2023 p. -