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A poet illuminates the landscape and culture of her birthplace - and what is lost as they disappear.
About the author
Andra Schwarz was born in 1982 in Upper Lusatia in Saxony, Germany and currently lives in Leipzig where she studied creative writing at the Deutsche Literaturinstitut. She won the Open Mike Lyric Prize in 2015 and the Leonce and Lena Prize in 2017. She was awarded a residency at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin in 2018 and a grant by the Kulturstiftung Sachsen in 2019. Her debut collection of poetry,
Am morgen sind wir aus glas (Leipzig: Poetladen), was published in the Fall of 2017. Her work has also appeared in Maulkorb, Ostragehege, L - der Literaturbote, Jahrbuch der Lyrik., and others.
Summary
A poet illuminates the landscape and culture of her birthplace — and what is lost as they disappear.
Foreword
Advance galleys to Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, NPR;Advance review copies on Edelweiss;Co-op available;E-blast announcements to our list of 250+ reviewers, literary journals, bloggers, and literary organizations;Review copies to 30 literary journals, with special attention to those that have reviewed our recent European books (Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, Three Percent, Massachusetts Review, Poetry Salzburg, and others);Feature article campaign to 40-50 publications, including poetry, German, women’s, mainstream;Featured title at AWP, Boston Book Fair, Brooklyn Book Festival, ALTA, Association of Slavic and Eastern European Studies conference, and Tucson Festival of Books;Tie marketing in with National Poetry Month;Social media campaign on FaceBook, Twitter and Instagram, and e-blasts to Zephyr’s main list;Virtual or in-person reading tour (if in-person, to New York, Boston);Eblasts to creative writing, German Studies Association, Slavic Studies, ethnic studies;Potential core text for German Literature, Creative Writing courses.
