Salt Is for Curing
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Salt Is for Curing is the lush and haunting full-length debut by Sonya Vatomsky. These poems, structured as an elaborate meal, conjure up a vapor of earthly pains and magical desires; like the most enduring rituals, Vatomsky's poems both intoxicate and ward. A new blood moon in American poetry, Salt Is for Curing is surprising, disturbing, and spookily illuminating.
Sonya Vatomsky
Sonya Vatomsky is a writer living in Manchester, England.
Sonya was born in the Soviet Union and grew up in the Pacific Northwest, where they studied Linguistics and Finnish at the University of Washington. They are a member of the Horror Writers Association and have been published in Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror; their nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Smithsonian Magazine. In 2024, they were shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction Prize. They are the author of SALT IS FOR CURING, a poetry collection. UNDER A FUR COAT is their first novel.
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