Lacey Trautwein lives and works in Louisville, KY. Lacey is the Development Officer at Sarabande Books, an independent publisher of poetry, stories, and essay founded in 1994.


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Review of Final Girl by Lauren Milici

Final Girl by Lauren Milici Big Lucks Books, 2019 Lauren Milici’s Final Girl (Big Lucks Books, 2019) screams survive, survive, survive. Here, her words are absolute: scars & hearts & [body]. Milici warns readers in the first few lines of Purge, “When the sun goes down, look for/his car across the street/Shut the blinds” a cautious notion to women everywhere to the last lines of His Girl Friday, “I must taste of ash, or expired film/of knees skinned/on the sidewalk”. Milici’s collection is about the arduous journey of trauma and the light at the end. Look at me. I am so many pieces. Visit Lauren Milici's Website Visit Big Lucks Books' Website


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