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Poetry. Mallory Tater's THIS WILL BE GOOD tells the story of a young woman's burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As the difficulties of her disease reveal themselves, they ultimately disrupt family relationships and friendships.
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"Evocative and tactile as unearthed memory, THIS WILL BE GOOD follows the history of a family through years, homes, seasons, and bodies. They're death and grief, sex and religion. A reckoning with womanhood, manhood, and memory, these stories have a feeling of being passed down, kept secret, and slipped in notes and gestures between intimates whose closeness is felt on the skin. Press these words to your breast." --Sarah Gerard
About the author
MALLORY TATER is a writer from the traditional, unceded territories of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg Nation (Ottawa). Mallory's poetry and fiction have been published in literary magazines across Canada such as
Room, CV2, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Carousel, Prism International and
Arc Magazine. She was shortlisted for
Arc Magazine's 2015 Poem of The Year Contest,
The Malahat Review's 2016 Far Horizon's Contest and
Room Magazine's 2016 Fiction and Poetry Prizes. She was the recipient of
CV2's 2016 Young Buck Poetry Prize. She is the publisher of Rahila's Ghost Press, a poetry chapbook press.
