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The Skinned Bird: Essays

Chelsea Biondolillo

From award-winning essayist Chelsea Biondolillo, THE SKINNED BIRD is about all the ways we break our own hearts. In lyric, fragmented essays-full of geological, ornithological and photographic interventions, with landscapes, loss, and longing-Biondolillo travels the terrain of leaving and finding home while keeping her sights fixed firm on the natural world around her.

Includes "How to Skin a Bird," winner of the Carter Prize for the Essay, and the Best American Essays 2014 notable, "Phrenology."

Book Details

  • Publisher: Kernpunkt Press
  • Publish Date: May 1st, 2019
  • Pages: 165
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.20in - 0.60in - 0.65lb
  • EAN: 9781732325111
  • Categories: GeneralEssaysGeneral

About the Author

Biondolillo, Chelsea: - Chelsea Biondolillo is the author of two prose chapbooks, Ologies and #Lovesong. Her work has been collected in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016, Waveform: Twenty-first Century Essays by Women, and How We Speak To One Another: An Essay Daily Reader, among others. She is a former Olive B. O'Connor fellow at Colgate University, and her work has been supported by Literary Arts, Wyoming Arts Council and the Consortium for Science and Policy Outcomes/NSF. She has a BFA in photography from Pacific NW College of Art and an MFA in creative writing/environmental studies from the University of Wyoming. She lives and works outside of Portland, Oregon.