Sugar Work - Paperback
by Katie Marya
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Alice James BooksISBN-13:9781948579261ISBN-10:194857926XUPC:9781948579261Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:FamilySize:8.98 x 5.98 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC4JQ13J6A
Sugar Work chronicles the complexities of womanhood, race, and gender that arose from growing up around sex work in Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1990s. Poems investigate beauty and whiteness, the aftermath of sexual trauma on the female body, divorce, desire, and art itself.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Alice James BooksISBN-13:9781948579261ISBN-10:194857926XUPC:9781948579261Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:FamilySize:8.98 x 5.98 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC4JQ13J6A
Katie Marya is a writer and translator originally from Atlanta, GA. Her work has appeared in North American Review, Guernica, Waxwing, and other literary magazines. She was the recipient of the 2018 James Dickey Prize for Poetry at Five Points and has received fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and Nebraska Arts Council. Her first full-length poetry collection Sugar Work was the Editor's Choice for the 2020 Alice James Award and will be published in June 2022. She earned a BA in Spanish from Westmont College and an MFA from Bennington College. She is currently a PhD student in poetry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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