Sara Peters was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and lives in Toronto. She completed an MFA at Boston University, and was a Stegner fellow at Stanford. Her work has appeared in Slate, The Threepenny Review, and Poetry magazine. Her first book is 1996.
Praise for I Become a Delight to My Enemies:
"The subject matter, while in some senses timeless, is also very
much of the present moment. I Become is a book of voices,
disembodied, all of its characters from a nameless town where they
experienced sexual abuse and terror. Contributing to the sense of
secrecy and shame, some of the text appears occasionally as
marginalia, like whispered comments from the periphery of a town's
main square. No two pages are alike. The text is often in
fragments, abruptly cut, as if the speakers are hesitant about how
much they should say. . . . [A]n aural immersion in a town of
people who need to speak out, to reveal truths, to push back
against the shame, to hold out hope." -Globe and Mail
"If Delight demands a different type of engagement-it is its
own many-headed beast, consisting of mini fables, prose vignettes,
poems whose lines float unmoored in white space, story shards,
marginalia-it also offers a different type of reward for the
persevering reader. Making sense of historical and immediate trauma
is not easily pondered or plotted. It deserves a form that
challenges us to slow and struggle and sit with the stories that
break us." -Toronto Star
"I Become a Delight to My Enemies takes massive risks that pay off
often, especially when Peters refuses to tone things down and turn
away. Like her excellent poetry debut, her fiction debut bodes well
for her future as an author and is a surprisingly audacious
offering from a new Canadian imprint." -Winnipeg Free
Press
"[U]ncanny and vivid. . . . Peters's stylistic hybridity invites
the reader into gaps and absences; the result is a kind of
complicit questioning of narratives that must be unlearned,
relearned, and inhabited." -Quill & Quire
"I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a clever, genre-blending work
that portrays a complex and deeply affective picture of feminism
and femininity." -The Puritan
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