Lannie Stabile (she/her), a queer Detroiter, is the winner of OutWrite’s 2020 Chapbook Competition in Poetry and a back-to-back semifinalist for the Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. Lannie was also named a 2020 Best of the Net finalist. Her debut poetry full-length, Good Morning to Everyone Except Men Who Name Their Dogs Zeus, was published in 2021 by Cephalopress. Her fiction debut, Something Dead in Everything, is out now with ELJ Editions. Find her on Twitter @LannieStabile or @NotALitMag, where she throws random writing contests and open mics.
Lannie StabileThe idea for my most recent book, Strange Furniture, came from a need to talk about the violence and neglect in my childhood. There was just so much t…moreThe idea for my most recent book, Strange Furniture, came from a need to talk about the violence and neglect in my childhood. There was just so much trauma settled in these bones, that I had to start siphoning it poem by poem. (less)