Without Woman or Body

Without Woman or Body reveals the life of a young woman as she reconciles with her sexuality, her mental illness, and the distinct memories of abuse that haunt her. These poems travel through a range of shifting geographies: from deserts to coastlines to the domestic spaces of the home. Here, Field Bell asks how are stories lived? How do they become? And what is bigger than the body when everything we know is confined within it?

Allison Field Bell is a multi-genre writer originally from northern California. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Utah, and she has an MFA from New Mexico State University.