Honeypot - Womer, Brenna

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Résumé :
Slipping easily from genre to genre and form to form, proudly saying the supposedly unsayable, refusing ever to balk in the name of imposed politeness or unfair expectation, Brenna Womer breaks all the rules except the most important one: to tell your own truth unswervingly, in the best way you know how, no matter what. This is a smart, brave first collection, brimming with beauty and empathy and joy.

Biographie:
Brenna Womer (she/they) is a queer, childfree, Latine prose writer, poet, artist, and professor of creative writing, literature, and publishing. She is the author of Honeypot (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019) and two chapbooks, cost of living (Finishing Line Press, 2022) and Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance (C&R Press, 2018). Her creative writing, craft, reviews, and interviews have been published in North American Review, Redivider, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, The Pinch, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Brenna is a contributing interviewer for SmokeLong Quarterly and has held editorial positions at Moon City Review & Press, Passages North, Story Magazine, and Shenandoah, where, last year, she served as interim Editor-in-Chief and is now Creative Nonfiction Editor. Brenna holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Michigan University, where she was a recipient of the King-Ch?vez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship and two Excellence in Education research grants for her creative work. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Best American anthologies, with her essay W?sthof Silverpoint II 10-Piece Set being named a Notable in Best American Essays 2017, edited by Leslie Jamison. Most recently, an essay about her mixed heritage, Thick Like Me, won NELLE's Three Sisters Prize for Creative Nonfiction.Raised on military bases across the US and overseas, Brenna often explores themes of home and belonging in her creative work, which is frequently experimental.