I would first like to thank my mentors Cathy Wagner, Keith Tuma, and cris cheek. Thank you for your insights and sage wisdom, for pushing me in the best ways.
Thanks as well to the creative writing communities at Miami University and in the MFA program at Indiana University. The support of my peers has been tireless and tender.
And last, but certainly not least, a thank you to Joe Thornton—you are my best friend and best love. This collection would not have come together without your supply of affection and encouragement, your laughter, your heart so sweet.
Emily Corwin is a Midwestern girl who loves all things pretty and spooky. She completed her MA at Miami University, where she studied poetry, and she is currently an MFA candidate at Indiana University in Bloomington. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Word Riot, Smoking Glue Gun, Midwestern Gothic, Split Rock Review, and The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society.
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Foreword
A Note about Poetry Ebooks
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pretty pretty princess vs. the underworld
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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Author: Emily Corwin
Editors: Kiki Petrosino, Ruthie Knox, and Mary Ann Rivers
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Cover Photography: Courtney Kalmbach
Cover Design: Stray King Design
Interior Art: Ann O’Connell
Interior Design: Williams Writing, Editing & Design
“I am perfectly hideous, you are perfectly hunky,” declares the speaker of Emily Corwin’s My Tall Handsome,a furious romp through