Christy Prahl

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Catalog of Labors

​Unsolicited Press

$18.95, paperback, 5.5" x 8.5"; 56 pages

Pub date: September 7, 2026

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​"In this tender and attentive accounting of the people who pick up the trash, make our coffee, and deliver the newspaper, Christy Prahl opens a window into the worlds of unseen workers and their invisible labor . . . As Prahl honors American workers, she asks us to consider who—and what—is left behind in a world where technology is changing the nature of livelihood and heightening the disparities between those who serve and those who consume." - Ann Wallace, author of Keeping Room

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An Illinois Arts Council grant recipient and multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, I am the author of We Are Reckless (Cornerstone Press), With Her Hair on Fire (Roadside Press), Catalog of Labors (Unsolicited Press), and The Grocery Pageant (Nixes Mate, forthcoming). My poetry has appeared in a host of national and international journals, been featured on podcasts, and been scored by post-punk musicians. I have enjoyed residencies at both Ragdale and The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow and split my time between Chicago and southwest Michigan. I am the founder of the PenRF reading series. 

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