Bodies of Water & Women

Description

A girl grows up in a radioactive hometown. Her bloodline intertwines with rivers and streams that have been polluted with toxic waste. She's raised by a village of women who, like the water, remember everything. She learns resilience from generations of single mothers, waitresses, teachers, secretaries, nurses, artists, dancers, and witches. A woman faces grief, death, illness, joy, love, and interdependence like a poet lost in prayer, or a natural scientist, one who studies mushrooms, which "transform toxicity into tenderness." She writes her way through the mud and the muck. She imagines the freedom of breaking the cycle.

Kira Gresoski is a poet and writer in St. Louis, Missouri. After years of using her English degree in the traditional sense (i.e. working as a waitress, barista, and paraprofessional while squeezing in time to write at all odd hours of the day), she now runs a copywriting business. Her first book, Bodies of Water & Women, is a love letter to her younger self, her working class hometown, and the people who are here to break old cycles and create new worlds. You can find her work at www.kiragresoski.com