Ologies

by Chelsea Biondolillo

Ologies is Chelsea Biondolillo's debut chapbook of essays about her relationship as a woman with an interest in science. These memoir-style essays with gruesome imagery form a compelling narrative of Biondolillo's adolescence. Through these descriptions, Biondolillo claims that women can be scientists in a male-dominated, sexist field of study.

38 pages, Paperback

Published May 20, 2015

About the author

Chelsea Biondolillo is the author of The Skinned Bird (KERNPUNKT Press, 2019), and two prose chapbooks, Ologies and #Lovesong. Her work has been collected in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016, Waveform: Twenty-first Century Essays by Women, and How We Speak To One Another: An Essay Daily Reader, among others.

She is a former Oregon Literary Arts fellow and Olive B. O'Connor fellow at Colgate University, and her work has been supported by Wyoming Arts Council and the Consortium for Science and Policy Outcomes/NSF.

She has a BFA in photography from Pacific NW College of Art and an MFA in creative writing/environmental studies from the University of Wyoming. She lives and works outside of Portland, Oregon.

Reviews

[William Reagan · Rating 5 out of 5]

The texture of the language throughout Ologies is head-shakingly good, well suited for the friction in the dual-timeline stories in this small and splendid book. I felt compelled to read many lines aloud to friends, and when I ran out of pages, I immediately wanted more.