"Like the voice in Whitman, which she exuberantly appropriates and updates, McFadden's speaker is at once uniquely human and recognizable in all of us. . .a genuinely ambitious book, a book with big wings." —Chase Twichell, judge, Four Way Books Intro Series

Winner of the Four Way Books Intro Series in Poetry, selected by Chase Twichell.

MARY ANN MCFADDEN has lived in New York City since 1986, and before that in small towns and on citrus ranches in rural California. Her poems have appeared in such magazines as Kestrel, The American Voice, and Southern Poetry Review.

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