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BIOAnna Schenck was born a free spirit into a life engulfed in restraint. Growing up in the PNW on an island in Washington state with her 2 siblings, Anna found herself surrounded by a small community and large religious influence. Words became an early escape from a life of confusion and chaos. She immersed herself in literature and film that allowed her to see a life beyond the little island she called home. By age 7, Anna was writing to make sense of her life experiences and navigate her way into the world. SYNOPSISIn her first full length publication, Hurricane Girl, Anna chronicles her life of wild abandon, in a delicate but chaotic rhythm. Anna isn't afraid to expose the truth of self-exploration and difficulty in maintaining self-acceptance. Anna will take you to the darkest hours of insecurity then to the sincerest moments of humility, all with a veil of cynical nurturing that only a woman who has lived a lot of life in a short time, can bring.Anna has found her way back to that small island in Washington with a new sense of vigor. She is working as a nurse, continuing her education, still writing her way through life's challenges, and raising a fierce young woman to use her words too.PRAISE:¿"The name Anna Schenck is defined exactly how it sounds - Anna: a sweet little girl living in the clouds with daffodils in her hair, and Schenck: stabbing an inmate to the ICU with a toothbrush rubbed to a sharp point by prison flooring. Anna uses these tools to describe her journey through late teenage angst and arriving at an exhausted finish line of love, worry, and motherhood. She explains her tales moment by moment like a canary in a coal-mine; screaming when the air is toxic and then lullaby you to safety in a way that only your mother can hum her classic tune as if she is the sandman bringing you to sleep."¿¿Emma Bianchi, Poetry Laboratory

With a title like The Air is Smokey Because We Don't Love Each Other Enough, it's no surprise that these poems deal candidly and unapologetically with the conundrum of living in our times (and I love it). Dark humor looms in Gusta's lines, and you'll find that you may recognize your friends, your lovers, and yourself in the attitudes and anecdotes that inhabit these pages. Intriguing, clever, and achingly relevant, this collection is essential reading for everyone who's ever been stranded on a burning planet.-Rena Priest, Washington State Poet Laureate and author of Patriarchy BluesChris Gusta's acerbic wit is laced with tenderness in this collection of poems exploring love, loneliness, and the societal norms we take for granted. In "New Things in the World of Disease," Gusta wonders if "my well of experiences has been poisoned / and if everything interesting has already passed," only to remember the night "I laid in a giant puddle of spilled Dr. Pepper / on a movie theater floor in nothing but my underwear / so, there is always novelty". By turns poignant and hilarious, these poems peel back the polite exterior we present to the world and revel in the beauty of brutal truth-telling. After all, as Gusta writes in "Roll Away the Stone," "burying isn't better, / we just don't have to see it happen anymore." -Elizabeth Vignali, author of House of the SilverfishC. Gusta is a high school English teacher in the northwest corner of Washington. He has been published in several magazines and on numerous websites, such as Hoarse, Poetrynight, and Vice, as well as self-releasing a number of chat books and editing the late poetry zine Your Hands, Your Mouth. He enjoys a good sweater, and staring off into the void.cover: Leah Wilemon.