About the Author

C. Kubasta was born in a small town, a place where the winter light through bare branches always looks a little spooky. Her previous novels This Business of the Flesh (Apprentice House), and Girling (Brain Mill) explore small-town life through the interrelationships of complex and flawed protagonists. Her poetry is widely available in a variety of journals, and the poetry collections Of Covenants (Whitepoint Press), and All Beautiful & Useless (BlazeVox). She lives, writes, and teaches in Wisconsin, where she continues to be fascinated by the subtleties of language, meaning, and the stories we choose to tell, as well as those we don't. Find her at www.ckubasta.com & follow her @CKubastathePoet

Reviews

"Abjectification resides somewhere between #METOO and #ICONCUR, a modern macrocosm where female characters mutate from animals and changelings to 'reverse-ghost-women' who 'bleed for days but never die, ' eluding, sometimes even mocking, the logic of men's worlds. This story collection both excites and paralyzes the libido."-- Laura Jean Baker, author of The Motherhood Affidavits: A Memoir"The stories in Abjectification are incisive and accomplished. They hang in orbit around a feeling of dread and anxiety that builds and builds with each page, each sentence, and each carefully rendered image. This is a remarkable book. I urge you to read it."--Kevin Powers, critically-acclaimed author of A Shout in the Ruins and The Yellow Birds