Gastromythology

Jessica Manack's Gastromythology is a meditation on how the ways we nourish - or fail to nourish - one another can form an origin story. From enjoying it, to shunning it, to becoming it, food is something with which modern girls and women have a complex relationship, all of which is explored unflinchingly in this volume. Through artfully-crafted verse in a variety of forms, Manack takes the reader from the awakenings of sexuality, to the microbiome of a mother's body, to the disorienting culinary landscape of a new country, all the while pondering the ways a person feeds, and is fed by, their landscape.

About the author

Jessica Manack holds degrees from Hollins University and lives with her family in her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her writing has appeared widely in anthologies and journals, including Still: The Journal, SWWIM Every Day, and Fine Print, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is a recipient of a 2022 Curious Creators Grant. This is her first book. Keep up with her work at http: //www.jessicamanack.com

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Manack
• Assisted by: Hayley Haugen (Editor)
• Publisher: Sheila-Na-Gig Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2024
• EAN: 9781962405492
• ISBN: 978-1-962405-49-2
• No. of pages: 58
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 4 mm
• Weight: 87 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama