What happens when a toxic relationship dies? Wrapping multifaceted depictions of love with chemistry and flickers of mental illness, Heart Float tells a story of reconstruction out of destruction, in the form of a phoenix-woman rising from ashes on her own terms.
CHRISSY MONTELLI is the author of the chapbook Heart Float (Bottlecap Press, 2017) and the micro-chapbook Going to Ithaca (Ghost City Press, 2017). A SUNY Geneseo alumna, she was the 2015 recipient of the Mary Thomas Award in Poetry. Her writing can be found in Noble / Gas Qtrly, The Adirondack Review, Atrocity Exhibition, Gandy Dancer, & elsewhere. Originally from Long Island, NY, she currently attends UMass Amherst, pursuing an MFA in poetry while working in Student Affairs. She was once bullied by The Washington Post for blogging about poetry not being dead.