day/break voices She worked as a journalist

She worked as a journalist before enrolling in graduate school

University of Chicago

and found it a great maw of emptiness

In Dakota Grammar

" poet dg nanouk okpik seamlessly melds both traditional and contemporary narrative

day/break voices She worked as a journalistday break, Governor General's Literary Award Winner Gwen Benaway's fourth collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, day break asks what it means to be a trans woman, both within the text and out in the physical world. Shifting between theory and poetry, Benaway questions how gender, sexuality, and love intersect with the violence and transmisogyny of