Dominant Genes

Winner of the Fall 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition

Dominant Genes, the new hybrid collection from Stonewall Honor author and Lambda Literary Award finalist SJ Sindu, is equal parts power and astonishing beauty, tenderness and shimmering anger, poetry and lyric essays interwoven in a gorgeous exploration of family, heritage, and the construction of nonbinary and queer identities. “ We learn our anger through osmosis,” Sindu writes of the inherited rage of South Asian women, “ or maybe ...