Girl's Guide to Leaving - Paperback

by Laura Villareal (Author)

Tumbleweeds and wandering cacti litter the page, coyotes croon at the prose. In poems haunted by specters of intimate partner violence, Girl's Guide to Leaving considers what it means to escape the love that trapped you and find a temporary home in the barely cooled ashes of a wildfire.

Author Biography

Laura Villareal is a 2019-21 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow, a 2020-21 Stadler Fellow, and the author of the chapbook The Cartography of Sleep. She works on an interview series at F(r)iction called "Writers Talking about Anything but Writing." Her work has appeared in AGNI, Grist, Black Warrior Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere.