Leafskin

Description

A poet and her husband have been trying to make a baby. But while undergoing fertility treatments in the midst of a harrowing wildfire season, Jo reconsiders raising a child in a time of climate crisis. When her artist ex-girlfriend, who has always had an uncanny connection to nature, re-enters her life, Jo struggles to navigate the transformations in her relationships and realities.

Miranda Schmidt’s lyrical debut novel blurs the boundaries between poetry and prose, human and nonhuman, reality and magic. A tale of queer love, new motherhood, and ecological interconnectedness, Leafskin interrogates how we create, and what we become, in a time of environmental devastation.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Miranda Schmidt
Published: 03/25/2025
Publisher: Stillhouse Press
ISBN: 9781945233289
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 0.70″ H x 9.00″ L x 6.00″ W

About the Author
Schmidt, Miranda: – Miranda Schmidt (they/she) is a writer living in Portland, Oregon whose work circles around the folkloric, the familial, queer magic, and the more-than-human world. Their writing has appeared in Triquarterly, Orion, Electric Literature, Catapult, and more. She has received support from the Lambda Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Writers and Bread Loaf Environmental Conference and taught creative writing at the Portland Book Festival, the Loft, the University of Washington, and Portland Community College. Miranda is a current PhD candidate at Bath Spa University and received their MFA from the University of Washington.