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Nisha Patel is an award-winning disabled and queer artist and a Canadian Poetry Slam Champion. She is a recipient of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal and the Edmonton Artists' Trust Fund, and is the author of Coconut (NeWest Press). She lives in Edmonton, Canada.
"""A Fate Worse than Death is a stunning achievement--rarely have I encountered a book so compelling and vulnerable. Nisha Patel's poetry burns with a fire that genuinely makes space in the world where we can exist and survive. Everyone needs to read this book."" --Jordan Abel, author of Injun and NISHGA ""A Fate Worse than Death is polyvocal by necessity: to be disabled, Patel reminds us, is to be riven. Riven by medicine, riven by ableism, riven by sexism, riven by racism, riven by access friction, riven by our shifting identities coexisting in tension. Patel crips unexpected forms, from case notes to Wikipedia entries to patient handouts to medical imaging, to reveal how 'the disabled body is the most possible.'"" --Travis Chi Wing Lau, author of Paring and Vagaries ""A Fate Worse than Death is precise, dynamic, courageous, and careful. Confronting self- and medical examinations of disability, these poems show that a 'fate' caused by repeat disappointments, inaccessibility, and costs leaves Patel no choice but to invent new terms of advocacy in order to document a glaring sense of agency and visibility. A certain voice, refusing to be erased, blooms in spite of the barriers and constraints both within the medical system and on the page."" --Britta Badour, author of Wires That Sputter"
