Description:
Winner of the 2026 Dylan Thomas Prize
One of The New Yorker's Best Books and Essential Reads of 2025
Hilarious, moving, and accessible, the poems in this extraordinary debut interrogate patriotism in a deeply flawed country.
Brief description: Sasha Debevec-McKenney's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, and Yale Review. She was the 2020-2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and a 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
Review Quotes: Sasha Debevec-McKenney writes funny, beautiful poems--dispatches from the dark side of girl-world--and once I started reading them, I couldn't stop. She's a huge talent.--Cat Marnell, author of the New York Times bestseller How to Murder Your Life