Good Girl and Other Yearnings

Overview

From "Quantum Mechanics And You" to "Little Red Riding Hood Buys A 6-Pack After EMDR," these poems turn the confessional genre on its head. Correa's debut full-length collection explores how trauma shakes the foundations of identity, and how healing happens on every level: atomic, corporeal, corporate, and cosmic. Raw and lyrical, personal and expansive, these poems are an evocative reclamation of self, a bold bet on existential hope when existential dread is throwing punches.

Author Biography

Isabelle Correa is a poet from Washington state now living in Mexico City. She studied creative writing at Western Washington University, is the winner of the 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and the author of the chapbook Sex is From Mars But I Love You From Venus . Her work has appeared in Pank, Third Point Press, The Rebis, and more.