Zoe Whittall is the author of No Credit River and Wild Failure.
The Ontario author discussed No Credit River on Bookends with Mattea Roach.Zoe Whittall: Why heartbreak is a valid form of grief
Whittall brings readers along through six years of her life which include the loss of a pregnancy, a global pandemic and abandoned love. Honest, emotional and painful, the collection of prose poems examines anxiety and creativity in the modern world as well as the intersection of motherhood and queerness.
MR: What are some of the specific challenges or negotiations that you were wrestling with when crafting this new book, given that it is this confessional type of work where you're talking about your own experiences in a relationship?While I was writing it, I was very conscious about how there's very few literary works about femme-butch relationships and very few about femme and transmasculine relationships.
It was important to me while writing that I acknowledge that, and also free myself from that sort of self-censorship that can happen. I had to let go of any kind of ideas of representation and think only about the artful quality or the real sort of vulnerability that I wanted to get at through language.
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