Poetry. Gritty poems carve her coming-of-age as the speaker dares fear to hold her back. Sandra Lim, who selected chigger ridge to win the 2023 Tenth Gate Prize, says, "These poems sound out the rich ambivalence in the poet's senses of what makes up a self and its endless enmeshments with the material world. There are country matters here, pastoral concerns woven into impressions of place, family, and the dramas of love and becoming." Reviewer...
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