Emily Austin is delightful and has a new novel coming out. I’m going all completist on her.
Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austin (Brick, 2024) is fabulous. And now shortlisting for the Lampman Award as it should.
Maybe you have to be born into Christian fundamentalism and be out the other side to find this redemptive, funny, poems to salve your soul from the scarring and jump scare of hell and brimstone
It may be my fav poetry book ever. (Or Seed Beetle: poems by Mahaila Smith.) Read each three times. At least it made me feel healed and happy & vindicated & I paused and laughed & had my mind delightfully tickled as I read it the first time entirely too fast.
Some play within particular verses but I think this book might be more accessible to anyone queer-leaning and feminist.