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PENNY GUISINGER
“Penny Guisinger’s voice is that rare combination of strong and perplexed, pissed and amused, self-effacing and cocky, compassionate and outraged. Her writing convinces us that there are no easy answers, just the steady soldiering on.” —Barbara Hurd
FORTHCOMING MARCH 1, 2024
“A terrific contribution to queer literature and a wonderfully fresh, irresistible delight.”
—Mark Doty, National Book Award Winner
ALSO BY PENNY GUISINGER
Born in Denver and raised in a state of migration between Brooklyn, NY and easternmost Maine, Guisinger loves fog banks, quality bagels, rocky shores, and the particular stench of a downtown D train in summer. She currently lives in a house down a dirt road along a remote stretch of Maine coast with her wife, two teenagers, and a slowly increasing number of dogs.
A Maine Literary Award winner and a three-time notable in Best American Essays, her essays have appeared in the pages of Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Rumpus, Guernica, Solstice Literary Magazine, multiple anthologies, and other places. She’s working on her next book, her sailing skills, being a less terrible cello player, and training for the “Watching Murder Shows” event in the Netflix Olympics.
Guisinger is the author of the memoir Postcards from Here, which Sven Birkerts called “Wry, sorrowful, lyric communiques from home to the world” and Dinty Moore admired for its “precise prose, droll wit, and resonant voice.”