by Gret Heffernan (Author and photographer)
A lyric essay, full of poetry and photography, exploring the reasoning behind fanatical and extremist politics and religion in Midwest America. Gret Heffernan was raised a Creationist and a Republican in rural, agricultural Iowa. After university, she moved to London, England, where she became an agnostic and liberal thinker. After a decade, she returns home to help her mother recover from Sepsis. She investigates her own family, past, communities, and ideas for a possible unfractured future with an unbiased honesty that’s raw and necessary for revolutionary compassion.
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Publisher: Backlash Press
ISBN: 9781068697289, Poetry, Essay
Number of pages: 118
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 11 mm
Language: English
About the Author
Gret Heffernan is a writer who records and publishes text as an art practice. She writes poetry, fiction, essay, and screenplays. She’s the founder of Backlash Press and member of Edgeland Modern. She’s the author of multiple books and zines.
Her work has been featured in AGNI, Brittle Star, and A Rabbit’s Foot and longlisted by the BBC.
She studied poetry at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, Creative Writing and English Literature at Vermont College, Faber and Faber Academy, and Curtis Brown Creative. She is currently working towards her PhD at King’s College London.