My New Book Is Here!

You Can Now Own My Latest Poetry Collection, Girl Soldier

Dear Pens and Poison Family,

After many months of late-night edits, reveries, and tears (both of sadness and joy), I am excited to announce that my latest poetry collection, Girl Soldier, has made its way into our world. Girl Soldier has been two years in the making, and you can now add it to your bookshelf by heading on over to Amazon.

Girl Soldier is my fourth poetry collection and the first that I’ve released since securing an Internet audience. While my first three collections had some one-off gems, I didn’t spend as much time with my previous poetry books simply because I didn’t think anyone outside of my friends and family would ever be reading them. With Girl Soldier, I wanted to redefine the way I write poetry—I was no longer going to let mediocre, half-baked thoughts make their way onto the page. I was going to hold my work to a higher standard.

I’d like to think that Girl Soldier is the poetic equivalent of an album you can listen to straight through without skipping any tracks. It’s a collection of 19 carefully curated poems that tackle memory, art, and desire through witty banter and (hopefully) memorable lines. It’s a collection that chronicles the adventures of the last three years of my life in all its highs and lows while asking poignant questions about the world around us: What is memory? What is desire? What is it like being a woman in the 21st century who doesn’t really hate men?

To me, poetry has always meant tackling the universal through the particular. I know that the feelings of love, desire, hopelessness, and bliss that I’ve felt over the past several years are emotions we all share as members of the human race. In Girl Soldier, I do what I do best: tell stories—whether fictional or diaristic—about the world that we all inhabit in hopes of making sense of people, feelings, and society. I hope that you’ll share a piece of me in these poems and see a piece of yourself in one of my many stories.

I hope you’ll consider adding a piece of my soul to your collection by bringing Girl Soldier home with you today.

Girl Soldier is now available on Amazon.

I want to extend my deepest gratitude to each and every one of you who supported me throughout this journey. Whether you reviewed an advance copy of the collection or simply liked one of my poetry Notes posts, you have been instrumental in helping Girl Soldier get out into the world.

Special thank you to my editor, Nathaniel Lindstrom, for helping me take this book to the finish line.

Thanks again for being a loyal Pens and Poison subscriber throughout this journey. Your support of Girl Soldier means the world to me.

Love,