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salt box
"so starved for touch
i trace my own arms to feel skin on skin
cracked lips tingle sinking battleships
in the absence"
- ghost town
'salt box' traces longing and desire over the course of three long, grey Baltimore winters.
i trace my own arms to feel skin on skin
cracked lips tingle sinking battleships
in the absence"
- ghost town
'salt box' traces longing and desire over the course of three long, grey Baltimore winters.
40 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2024
About the author
Nat Raum
25 books24 followersnat raum (b. 1996) is a queer disabled artist and writer based on occupied Piscataway land in Baltimore, MD.
They graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2018 with a BFA in Photography and Book Arts and they are currently a second-year MFA candidate in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore, where they have also served as managing editor of the school’s literary journal, Welter.
nat’s personal creative practice centers primarily upon their lived experience with loss and sexual trauma and subsequent C-PTSD diagnosis, often taking the form of small-edition image/text books and zines.
nat is the founder and editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press, a queer literature and art publishing space. nat's artwork has been exhibited at venues including the Museum of Human Achievement, ICA Baltimore, Blackrock Center for the Arts, and the Griffin Museum of Photography. Past publishers of their writing include Delicate Friend, ANMLY, and Corporeal Lit. Their recent published books include you stupid slut (dream boy book club, 2022), the abyss is staring back (Querencia Press, 2023), random access memory (Bullshit Lit, 2023), and several chapbooks and photography publications.
They graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2018 with a BFA in Photography and Book Arts and they are currently a second-year MFA candidate in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore, where they have also served as managing editor of the school’s literary journal, Welter.
nat’s personal creative practice centers primarily upon their lived experience with loss and sexual trauma and subsequent C-PTSD diagnosis, often taking the form of small-edition image/text books and zines.
nat is the founder and editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press, a queer literature and art publishing space. nat's artwork has been exhibited at venues including the Museum of Human Achievement, ICA Baltimore, Blackrock Center for the Arts, and the Griffin Museum of Photography. Past publishers of their writing include Delicate Friend, ANMLY, and Corporeal Lit. Their recent published books include you stupid slut (dream boy book club, 2022), the abyss is staring back (Querencia Press, 2023), random access memory (Bullshit Lit, 2023), and several chapbooks and photography publications.
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