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Winner of the AWP 2017 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry In ancient fertility carvings, artists would drill holes into the woman's body to signify penetrability, which is the basis of Autobiography of a Wound: allowing those wounds and puncture marks to speak through the fertility figures. The wounds are chronicled through letters and poems addressed to F (F stands for the fertility carvings themselves, which are being addressed as one unified deity) , and A (Aphrodite, who is being referenced as a general deity of womanhood, a figurine that reappears throughout the poems, and a symbol that is referenced or portrayed in almost every fertility figurine or carving) . Autobiography of a Wound reconstructs the narrative surrounding female pathos and the idea of the hysteric girl.
About the Author
Brynne Rebele-Henry's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Fiction International, Rookie, and So to Speak, among other places. Her writing has won numerous awards, including the 2015 Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, the 2016 Adroit Prize for Prose, and a 2017 Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner. Her first book Fleshgraphs appeared with Nightboat Books in 2016. Her second book, Autobiography of a Wound, won the 2017 AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize and appeared with the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2018. Her first novel, Orpheus Girl, is forthcoming with Soho Teen. She is represented by Vicky Bijur Literary Agency.
