Girl in a Bear Suit, by Jen Jabaily-Blackburn

Publication date: April 1, 2024
ISBN: 978-1-9324-1884-2
$17

Girl in a Bear Suit is the winner of the 23rd Annual Elixir Press Poetry Award, selected by Christopher Citro.

Jennifer Chang had this to say about it: “Here are poems that dare to revel in multiplicities, embracing our transformations as ongoing and likely synchronous and flaunting language that finds in restlessness the heart’s inherent intelligence. The woman is a bear and the bear is a woman and all are beasts and all are stars in the night sky of this dazzling first book.”

Jen Jabaily-Blackburn is the author of the full-length collection Girl in a Bear Suit (Elixir Press, 2024) and the e-chapbook Disambiguation (Salamander/Suffolk University, 2024). She is the winner of the Louisa Solano Memorial Emerging Poet Award from Salamander, selected by Stephanie Burt. She is the Program & Outreach coordinator for the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College. Originally from the Boston area, she now lives in Western Massachusetts with her family.