Abi Pollokoff

night myths •

• before the body

What are the stories we tell our bodies about our bodies? What are the myths we tell ourselves about ourselves? night myths • • before the body illuminates the dichotomies contemporary women grapple with every day: identity and expectation, self-preservation and doubt, freedom and entrapment, wildness and cultivation. By dissolving the boundaries between the body and the natural world, Abi Pollokoff’s evocative debut deconstructs the essence of womanhood, carrying the reader into a communing at once vulnerable and insistent. night myths • • before the body is a resounding interrogation of being human in a posthuman world.

Abi Pollokoff is a writer, editor, book artist, and Pinch contributor (45.1). TriQuarterly nominated her work for a Pushcart, and her poems can also be found in The Seventh Wave, Denver Quarterly, and Radar, where she was a finalist for the Coniston Prize. Abi has been supported by the Jack Straw Cultural Center, Hugo House, and other organizations. She has taught writing and poetry at the college level, run the content department for a visual communications agency, and is the former events manager for Open Books: A Poem Emporium. She now serves as the managing editor for Poetry Northwest Editions and works in publishing. Abi holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington and a BA in English, French, and Italian from Tulane University. Find her at abipollokoff.com.