Christy Prahl

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With Her Hair on Fire

​Roadside Press

$15, paperback, 35 pages, 4"x 6"

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​"With poems that shimmer like roadside heat, With Her Hair on Fire maps the liminal spaces between domestic ritual and personal rebellion, where solitude is sensual and mid-life love is the belt of a cinched-tight arm. The mechanics of these poems are humming. Christy Prahl understands the absurd majesty of primates with egos in a world where no one quite connects the way they should and yet—everything plugs into everything else." - Amy Baskin, author of Skull and Night Hag

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An Illinois Arts Council grant recipient and multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, I am the author of We Are Reckless (Cornerstone Press) and With Her Hair on Fire (Roadside Press). My poetry has appeared in a host of national and international journals, been featured on podcasts, and set to music by two post-punk bands. 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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