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Jeannine Hall Gaileyserved as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She's the author of five other books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers,The Robot Scientist's Daughter, , winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and the SFPA's Elgin Award. She's also the author of PR for Poets, a non-fiction guide to help poets publicize their books. Her work has been featured on The Writer's Almanac, Verse Daily, and The Best Horror of the Year. She holds a B.S. in Biology and an M.A. in English from University of Cincinnati, and an MFA from Pacific University. Her poetry has appeared in journals like The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry; her personal essays have appeared on Salon.com and The Rumpus.
Who knew the apocalypse could be so fun? Jeannine Hall Gailey, that's who. Our trenchant speaker, who 'wrote a nuclear winter poem when I was seven, ' now in mid-life finds herself smack dab in the eye of a perfect storm: a mistaken terminal cancer diagnosis resolves itself into an MS diagnosis accessorized with a coronavirus crown. Yet these poems are deeply life-affirming, filled with foxes and fairytales and fig trees. Flare, Corona is a surprising, skilled, and big-hearted book. -- Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs and Poet Laureate of Mississippi
