Erica Wright is a senior editor and the poetry editor at Guernica Magazine. She is the author of six books, most recently All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (2017) and Famous in Cedarville (2019). Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Paste, New Orleans Review, and BOMB Magazine among other publications.

Captivating

• Preface1. Kingsnakes and Beauty Queens 2. The Problem of the Serpent3. From Mademoiselle Dorita to Britney Spears: The Snake Charmer Girls 4. A Mouse in Your Teeth5. Say Amen and Pass the Cottonmouth6. Python Pocketbooks7. Who’s a Good Boy?8. Snakes Are Not Cheap: Titanoboa and Other Monsters in the Lake9. The Hobbyist10. Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth11. Magnanimity and True CourageAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Erica Wright is a senior editor and the poetry editor at Guernica Magazine. She is the author of six books, most recently All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (2017) and Famous in Cedarville (2019). Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Paste, New Orleans Review, and BOMB Magazine among other publications.

Captivating

• Preface1. Kingsnakes and Beauty Queens 2. The Problem of the Serpent3. From Mademoiselle Dorita to Britney Spears: The Snake Charmer Girls 4. A Mouse in Your Teeth5. Say Amen and Pass the Cottonmouth6. Python Pocketbooks7. Who’s a Good Boy?8. Snakes Are Not Cheap: Titanoboa and Other Monsters in the Lake9. The Hobbyist10. Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth11. Magnanimity and True CourageAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex