Binded

“I sew myself together / again and again” in urgent vulnerability, H Warren’s debut collection, Binded, discloses their reality of living nonbinary in the rural context of Alaska. With breasts bound by compression, these poems explore the space that binds the body into itself, stuck in unrelenting forces of binary politics and violence. Each poem is a stitching and restitching of the self—an examination of trans-survival. This is a courageous collection—an anthem of Queer resilience and a reminder of the healing powers of community care.

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H Warren ( Author Website )

Publication Date: July 11, 2023

Genre/Imprint: Boreal Books, Poetry

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ISBN: 9781597099318

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Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World

One of the first books to explore the emotional landscape of living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome from a patient’s perspective; a playful story of falling down, getting back up again, and realizing you should have gone to the hospital sooner.


When ten-year-old Alyssa is diagnosed with the rare genetic connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, she vows not to let it stop her. Unfortunately, her efforts to avoid being “too sensitive” lead her to neglect not only her health but other aspects of her life as well. Twenty years later, she’s finally forced to confront the reality of her condition head on. When she finds herself tangled in an unwieldy combination of chronic pain, a library job for which she is particularly ill-suited, and her wife’s mystifying health problems, her body starts to unravel in ways she can no longer ignore. If pushing through is not the answer, what does homecoming to her floppy body even look like?


ADVANCE PRAISE


Alyssa Graybeal is a genius. This refreshing coming-of-age memoir with its sick, queer perspective will remind you that humor is essential and sensitivity is a strength. Graybeal’s voice is like a great, weird friend, and you can trust her to tell the truth even when it’s painful.
-Ariel Gore, author of We Were Witches and The End of Eve


In a spiral through time, Graybeal knits a wise, generous story of resilience and beyond. It’s about alignment and aligning–with the body, with every body. It’s also a story about connection and connectivity and a larger ideal of care. With a hard-won and ever-present sense of humor, this is a powerful story with a cure for the ableism that ails us all.
—Jenny Forrester, author of Narrow River, Wide Sky and Soft-Hearted Stories.


In these exquisitely written recollections, Alyssa Graybeal spins a richly imaged and often hilarious story from the fibers of her own quest for life while navigating the challenges of having a rare genetic disorder. Graybeal’s sharp wit and keen attention to details makes reading Floppy an intimate journey across the Canadian landscape to the Pacific Northwest and into a queer body with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a condition that wreaks havoc on connective tissue. An exemplar on how to DIY a beautiful life, despite having a body insistent on falling down and coming apart. It’s both a tale of self-care and a call for change in a healthcare system that has historically gaslit people with chronic illnesses.
—Rebecca Fish Ewan, author of By the Forces of Gravity and Doodling for Writers


Graybeal, a self-labeled genetic freak who was diagnosed as a child with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, pulls us into the landscape of her floppy body with precision and grace. Brimming with queer love, cats, and the awkwardness of being human, Floppy is a roadmap for how we must learn to fight for the truth of our experiences, and how we can love the broken, beautiful body-homes we all live in.
—Laraine Herring, author of A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens

Graybeal performs the remarkable literary feat of narrating complex childhood experiences of embodied uncertainty and suffering in a voice that is sincere—but never precious—and critical—but not jaded. For people with EDS and their loved ones, this book is a rare blessing, the first of its kind to address not the “how-tos” of living with this condition but the emotional landscape it creates. The importance of this writing for the future of this community cannot be overstated.
—Megan Moodie, author of WE WERE ADIVASIS; Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz

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Alyssa Graybeal ( Author Website )

Publication Date: May 30, 2023

Genre/Imprint: Memoir, Red Hen Press

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ISBN: 9781636280974

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Aqueous

#1 Hot New Release on Amazon Canada in Dystopian Sci-Fi Books for Young Adults (11/16/2022)

From debut young adult novelist Jade Shyback comes the first in the Aqueous series. On the eve of Earth’s collapse, young Marisol Blaise is taken to live on an underwater mersation known as Aqueous with parents not her own. There, she must compete in the trials, grueling tests designed to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each trainee, hoping to be assigned to the all-male elite diving team known as the Cuviers. Desperate to prove to herself, the residents, and all of her parents, dead and alive, that she is worthy of  this prestigious placement, she works tirelessly to shatter misogynistic beliefs, only to discover that it was not only the men who constrained her. A much uglier untruth exists.

ADVANCED PRAISE

Aqueous is a coming-of-age story set against the harshly exotic backdrop of a life beneath the sea in an all-too-possible post-apocalyptic future. Marisol’s struggle for the right to grow into an intelligent, strong, independent woman plays out in a richly imagined underwater society filled with deeply human problems and devastating secrets—but it is not only her life that hangs in the balance, but all humanity. A fascinating debut and one that will make you think. “
Kerry Anne King, bestselling author of Improbably Yours

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Jade Shyback ( Author Website )

Publication Date: May 2, 2023

Genre/Imprint: Fiction, Xeno Books

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ISBN: 9781939096098

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