Poetry. Art. Essays. African &amp; African American Studies. Women's Studies. In an era of highly curated personas and unrealistic self-expectation, Kellie Richardson offers readers a stunningly honest account of her struggles with identity, relationships, mental health and self-love. THE ART OF NAMING MY PAIN collects Richardson's poetry, essays and art as she navigates what it is for a Black, queer, broken woman to seek joy in a world that says she doesn't deserve it. This book is an unfolding of her journey, bearing witness to the possibility of life after self-loathing. Richardson's voice is refreshingly candid in this sophomore collection, shedding light on issues we all face, though few have the courage to own in the public sphere.

The Art of Naming My Pain

Literature & Fiction

Richardson, Kellie

Essays & Correspondence

Blue Cactus Press

Fiction. Short Stories. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO WORSHIP THEM is an eerie and mesmerizing collection of short stories set in Mexico and Texas. Each of the collection's nine stories are woven together with themes of violence, mysticism and failures in the pursuit of love. Characters and landscapes slip from one story to the next, teasing readers with a sense of magical realism mastered by Snoek-Brown.

There Is No Other Way to Worship Them

Snoek-Brown, Samuel

Short Stories & Anthologies

Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. WHAT US IS offers readers a glimpse into the head space of one of Tacoma, Washington's most respected poets, Kellie Richardson. In her debut poetry collection, Richardson turns herself inside out to let others know they're not alone. There are other humans out there burning alive, praying for relief, pulling weeds, running fast, waiting for flight.

What Us Is

Poetry

Kumiho: A nine-tailed fox who transforms into a woman to seduce men and eat their livers or hearts. Sometimes, a man's heart isn't enough. As her inner Kumiho takes over, Alissa Tu is equal parts triumphant in conquest and terrifying in love's inevitable collapse. Each attempt to satisfy the Kumiho entangles Alissa more deeply in her alter-ego's devouring scheme. Can she reconcile with her animalistic counterpart, or will she remain forever bound and disembodied? This unapologetic memoir dissects- with bloody, fragmented incision-the shit-show of searching for love in our digital world.

Confessions of a Modern-Day Kumiho

Biographies & Memoirs

Tu, Alissa

Memoirs

For nearly thirty years, Tana McCabe has been trapped in suspended animation, just like the beetle encased in resin she wears around her neck. But one warm, summer night, on a remote stretch of highway in Montana, Tana unexpectedly breaks free from the expectations draped over her by her swiftly unraveling family and conservative hometown politics. Tana, a white woman, falls in love with Colette Little Crow. Her coming out as a late-blooming Gay woman is messy, painful, and full of fumbles only surpassed by those of her evolving family. Set on the slopes of the continental divide, in a place the Blackfeet call the backbone of the world, Where Rivers Change Direction is the awakening story of a woman who cannot remain bound to one place or identity. Tana's love with Collette ultimately cleaves her heart in two and she must decide whether to try to piece it all back together, or cross geographic and cultural divides to start over. Where Rivers Change Direction explores the meaning of home, the consequence of our choices, and the complicated influences - some centuries old - that pull us in one direction or another.

Where Rivers Change Direction

Romance

Bundrock, L

LGBTQ+ Romance

The Elephant in the Room

Jacob, Phillip

Business & Money

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