Stephanie Tom | Glass Poetry Press

Stephanie Tom (My Heart is a Mausoleum but only out of Necessity) is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee as well as a winner of the 2019 Poets & Writers Amy Award. Her poetry has appeared in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Sine Theta Magazine, Hobart, Honey Literary, and The Margins, among other places. She has previously been recognized by the national Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and is an alum of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program. Her first micro chapbook, Travel Log at the End of the World, was published in 2019 by Ghost City Press. She recently graduated from Cornell University, where she studied literature, information science, media studies, and psychology.

You can read more of her work at stephtom.weebly.com or find her on Twitter at @pvrecaffeine.

With their tendencies to bare fangs, shapeshift, and prophesize, Stephanie Tom's speakers are the poetic heroines we need in this world. My Heart is a Mausoleum but Only out of Necessity is an electrifyingly gorgeous collection that redefines in media res — we are dropped right into the mythologies that tie too close to home — the mythologies that are metaphors for the exact problems we need to confront. Paired with this confrontation is a signature, unabashed femininity, both romantic and complex that continuously shapeshifts. Tom's collection strikes red at every angle.

— Dorothy Chan, author of Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold