Ephemeral Village chapbook published!

I've been talking about this on social media and in my newsletter, but haven't put the announcement here yet (facepalm emoji...).

I have a chapbook of poems out! It was a whirlwind from acceptance to publication and right as A Trade in Betrayals was releasing as well (not to mention...lots of other head-spinning things in the world and my life...).

Has my head stopped spinning? No. But taking a moment to share this here, anyway, because it's super cool! Ephemeral Village is a collection of twenty poems that I wrote specifically to be a chapbook, all focused on the idea of a floating, transitory village in a place that vaguely resembles the northern provinces of the Netherlands.

Not that I've ever been to the Netherlands... But I was looking at memories and family stories of my grandparents and reading up on the kinds of folktales that might have been common in the region where their ancestors had lived, and the idea for the village came to me.

Ultimately, there's a Calvino-esque sense to these poems, of holding up the details and idiosyncrasies of an imaginary place as a way to reflect and counter the ways we create meaning and truth and identity in our own ephemeral homes.

The book is available (at least to US readers) from Barnes & Noble, Amazon (that's new--it wasn't on Amazon last I checked!), and various other online bookstores. Here's a UK link from Foyles. And the first link that went live was this bookstore in Sweden. (Google is showing me bookstores in Finland, Denmark, and Taiwan, as well, on the first page of results--so check your own favorite, local source!)