Beyond the Baths of Stars

Schneider K. Rancy is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer born to Haitian immigrants in South Florida. He is a graduate of Columbia University, where he earned a BA in English and Comparative Literature and Biology. His poetry has been published in Apogee, The Adirondack Review, The Seventh Wave, Moko Magazine, and elsewhere. His debut full-length poetry collection, Dreams of Diaspora, received praise from National Book Award Finalist Desiree C. Bailey. He is also the author of a poetry chapbook, Self-Portrait in Hospital as Camus. In his spare time, he is a surgical resident in Manhattan. Visit his website www.skrancy.com.

Beyond The Baths of Stars is refreshing, cool, and young, but at no point does it forsake its poetry, lyrical achievement and experimental quality. Schneider K. Rancy is a potent new voice, and a rightful heir to the traditions he inhabits. — Julia Kornberg, author of Berlin AtomizedBeyond the Bath of Stars boldly confronts the immense burdens of history, circumstance, and fate. When a mysterious encounter with a mystical woman unmoors him, protagonist Eurick goes adrift and dares to free himself from the burdens weighing down his life as the frustrated son of Haitian immigrants. Schneider K. Rancy captures the suffocating impact of systemic oppression, the intoxicating danger of surmounting it, and the hunger for rebellion with ethereal prose that blurs the line between our world and the next. Beyond the Bath of stars is a riveting, beautiful, and magical debut. — Leila Renee, author of Soft SpotsLayers of storytelling run deep in BEYOND THE BATHS OF STARS. Distinctly Diasporic in breadth, Rancy poetically explores the heavy expectations placed on first generation children and the painful in-between-ness with which they must contend. Brave in its honesty and vulnerability, a wonderful debut. — Erin E. Adams, author of JACKAL and ONE OF YOU