Cheryl J. Fish first visited Finland as a Fulbright professor in 2007. Since then she has returned many times to research protest and resistance to mining and extraction in Arctic Fennoscandia in the works of Sami filmmakers, photographers, and artists. However, the landscapes and experiences of the country's saunas, lakes, villages, homes, streets, and parks evoked rich stories and poetry. This unique collection of poems, The Sauna Is Full of Maids, is a reflection on how present-day Finnish life intertwines with folklore and mythology-expressed in the Kalevala, a work of epic poetry compiled from long-lived ballads, songs, and incantations-and advancing modern developments. Accompanied by many of the poet's own photographs, this collection has the kind of rich cultural detail that warms and satisfies the reader with insight and appreciation.

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Cheryl J. Fish is a poet, fiction writer, and environmental justice scholar. She is the author of CRATER & TOWER, poems that examine the eruption of the Mount St. Helens volcano through the lens of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/01. She is the author of the chapbooks Make It Funny, Make it Last (#171, Belladonna) and My City Flies By. Her poems have appeared in Poetics-for-the-More-than-Human World, New American Writing, Hanging Loose, Terrain.org and elsewhere. Her short stories have been published in Iron Horse Literary Review, CheapPopLit, Spank the Carp, and Liars League NYC. Her debut novel, OFF THE YOGA MAT, is forthcoming from Livingston Press in 2022. Fish has written about extraction and mining in Sami areas of Fennoscandia, and Sami responses through activist film, photography, and ecomedia in publications such as Critical Norths: Space Nature, Theory; Nordic Narratives of Nature and Environment; and The Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. Fish is the author of Black and White Women's Travel Narratives and co-editor with Farah J. Griffin, of A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African American Travel Writing. She has been Fulbright professor in Finland and is currently professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and docent lecturer in the Department of Cultures, at the University of Helsinki.

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