Birthday Girl

Sheila J. Sadr’s debut collection, Birthday Girl (the winner of the 2018 Stories Award for Poetry), questions and reinvents gender expectations as skillfully as it reimagines poetic forms. This book is for anyone engaged in the strange survival of themselves and others.

Praise for Birthday Girl

"Sheila J. Sadr writes with her guts. She writes with the parts of self that many of us run from, and yet, it is incredibly beautiful and powerful. Sheila dissects her body, her family, and her own heart as she announces her graduation from girlhood into a dragon, a fierce ball of fire. Blessed be her heart, its celebration, and its homecoming all bound in this beautiful collection."

- Yesika Salgado