What Good is Heaven: Poems

Winner of the 2024 Weatherford Award for the Best Poetry book about Appalachia

Set in a rural agricultural community in north Alabama, deep in the Appalachian foothills, What Good is Heaven interrogates the complicated relationship between violence and love. Viewed through the lens of a young, bisexual woman, the poems in this collection layer a queer coming—of—age narrative with poems of witness to the difficult realities not only of rural and farm life, but of violent cultural norms based...