Psych Murders is a powerful and disturbing book. Building upon the tradition of "nothing about us without us" within disability literature, Heit's poems allow those who actually live with disability to speak for themselves.

Psych Murders is a deeply felt and known work of somatic writing. Stephanie Heit is a writer who does not look away from 'so much unknown, ' inhabiting the 'blur' and 'the beauty' in equal measure. How do we write when we're exhausted? Or: How do we survive the book? Heit answers these questions with radical care and visceral acuity, in all weathers.

I love being an educator, sharing knowledge and expanding horizons. But every once in a while there is the ultimate moment when you know that you have given your students a gift, a text or experience that is and will remain precious to them on a deeply personal level. Tonight, when Stephanie Heit read from her amazing work, Psych Murders, and spoke with my class, I got to have such a moment. Thank you Stephanie, for the gift of your art and your presence! What a wonder it is to witness the power of art.

Psych Murders carves out a possibility for a different kind of bodymind health practice where desire and care might find a different mode of expression.