Grief Logic

by Crystal A.C. Salas, Emma Trelles (Selections)

Bilingual edition. Winner of the Gunpowder Press Alta California Chapbook Prize, series editor Emma Trelles "These poems read and sometimes physically appear like a sprawling Latinx pillowbook, filled with the intimate and honest particulars of family and what it means to navigate language, landscape, and girl/woman/hood. This chap is all heart, image, and sound-and then some."

44 pages, Paperback

Published April 10, 2022

About the author

Crystal AC Salas is a Xicanx poet, essayist, educator, and community organizer. Her poetry chapbook Grief Logic is co-winner of the inaugural Alta California Prize, available in a bilingual edition from Gunpowder Press. She has work in Northwest Review, [PANK] Magazine, World Literature Today, Chaparral Poetry, and Acentos Review. A founding member of the BreakBread Literacy Project, which elevates the voices of young creatives under 25, she serves as poetry editor for BreakBread Magazine. She holds an M.F.A. from University of California, Riverside, where she also provided arts and storytelling outreach as a Gluck fellow and Along the Chaparral fellow. She worked as a high school English teacher and youth slam poetry coach and is a recipient of a California Arts Council Established Individual Artist Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles where she writes about the city’s landscapes of grief and remembrance as mapped on her family. Her favorite poets are Serafin and Clarita Salas.