Ribgrass by Nicole Mae
is an atmospheric and haunting poetry collection. It explores the decay and resurrection of trans-queerness in the prairies. From farmland nostalgia to soft romances, Ribgrass is a vehicle for grief. The cyclical nature of mourning finds you everywhere⎯in an algae lake, in the kitchen fridge, in your hospital bed. It shows up as bugs in your bones. 

"Ribgrass is the kind of book that gets stuck under your fingernails. These poems move through the seasons like a life you can't quite leave."

⎯Sabrina Spenser Smith, author of A Brief Relief from Hunger

"Nicole Mae uses the rural, wild land to nourish their sick body when medical systems fail them. The land listens, offers clarity, and embraces a body in pain."

⎯Tea Gerbeza, author of How I Bend Into More

"Delicious and slick and replete with gorgeous imagery, Ribgrass is a roving saunter under a prairie sky."

⎯Hollay Ghadery, author of Rebellion Box