Fran Wilde is the double-Nebula award winning author of seven novels for children and adults, as well as numerous short stories, reviews, and essays that cross literary and genre boundaries. Trained as an artist, jeweler, programmer, and poet, Fran received her MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and an MA in interaction design from University of Baltimore. She is the genre fiction concentration director at Western Colorado University. This is her first collection of poetry and illustration.

“Wilde charts worlds of light and liquid that slide through space-time, myth and imagination awash with the mundane.”—Laura Gray Street, author of Pigment and Fume, coeditor of The Ecopoetry Anthology “Fran Wilde is one of my favorite contemporary writers. These poems are powerful, elegant, precise maps and directions and destinations that make me long to travel again—at least to the places inside Fran’s imagination, from Hades to Los Angeles. A gorgeous collection.”—Theodora Goss, award-winning author of The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter“Fran Wilde’s poetry makes my heart soar, and then ache, and then soar again. The lyricism of her prose has been quietly upping the stakes for language in speculative fiction for years now, and we're so fortunate to get such a potent, concentrated dose of it here.”—Sam J. Miller, author of The Blade Between“These poems turn on truly colorful ideas—what if you married the sea and had known each other since elementary school—Kudos Fran Wilde. It’s a book to go back to.”—Samuel R. Delany

Fran Wilde is the double-Nebula award winning author of seven novels for children and adults, as well as numerous short stories, reviews, and essays that cross literary and genre boundaries. Trained as an artist, jeweler, programmer, and poet, Fran received her MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and an MA in interaction design from University of Baltimore. She is the genre fiction concentration director at Western Colorado University. This is her first collection of poetry and illustration.

“Wilde charts worlds of light and liquid that slide through space-time, myth and imagination awash with the mundane.”—Laura Gray Street, author of Pigment and Fume, coeditor of The Ecopoetry Anthology “Fran Wilde is one of my favorite contemporary writers. These poems are powerful, elegant, precise maps and directions and destinations that make me long to travel again—at least to the places inside Fran’s imagination, from Hades to Los Angeles. A gorgeous collection.”—Theodora Goss, award-winning author of The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter“Fran Wilde’s poetry makes my heart soar, and then ache, and then soar again. The lyricism of her prose has been quietly upping the stakes for language in speculative fiction for years now, and we're so fortunate to get such a potent, concentrated dose of it here.”—Sam J. Miller, author of The Blade Between“These poems turn on truly colorful ideas—what if you married the sea and had known each other since elementary school—Kudos Fran Wilde. It’s a book to go back to.”—Samuel R. Delany