Stevie Edwards' debut book of poetry, Good Grief, catalogues her elegantly-wrought misadventures as a freshly-graduated, Michigan transplant stumbling over foal legs through Chicago and kneeling down to confront the wreckage of her skinned knees. Whether stopping to disinter some small ruin of a secondhand-clothes childhood, charting the reaches of her own privilege as a white woman in Chicago, or trying to recollect the reasoning behind last night's bar receipts, Stevie's voice -- a treble, equal parts angst and grace -- rumbles deep down in the belly of her poems, and lingers.Awards:*Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Prize for Poetry - 2013*Devil's Kitchen Reading Award - 2013 " I had a physical reaction, the nodding and head-shaking and eye-closing and deep breaths that come when I read a wonderful poem. I made a lot of those motions as I read this collection, and I was grateful for its tackling of life's sadness and uncertainty." - PANK "Though we encounter many of the expected narratives of adolescence, Edwards' command of the language and her refusal to back away from the toughest details of the confession (which often lead us far beyond where we're used to the story ending) makes these experiences as raw and nearly brutal as the first time."- Union Station Stevie Edwards is a Michigander but currently resides in Ithaca, NY, where she is an MFA candidate in creative writing at Cornell University. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Good Grief (Write Bloody 2012), has received the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award for Poetry and the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Prize for Poetry. Her latest chapbook, Atomic Girl, is forthcoming from Tired Hearts Press. She is the editor-in-chief of MUZZLE Magazine and editor of 4th & Verse Books. She has poetry published and forthcoming in Verse Daily, Rattle, Indiana Review, Devil's Lake, Southern Indiana Review, PANK, Vinyl, Juked, and Aim for the Head: An Anthology of Zombie Poetry. Poetry Prize: 'Good Grief' won the Bronze in the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2013 Reading Award: 'Good Grief' received the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award in 2013