Sweating Sickness

Rebecca Lehmann is the author of the poetry collections Ringer, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and Between the Crackups. Her writing has been featured in the American Poetry Review,the Threepenny Review,NPR’s the Slowdown,and other venues. Her debut novel, The Beheading Game, is forthcoming from Crown Publishing.Originally from Door County, Wisconsin, Lehmann teaches creative writing at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana and is the founding editor of Couplet Poetry.

Lehmann draws on myths and fairy tales as touchstones in a book confronting both the COVID pandemic and the suicide of her abusive ex.