Courtney Bates-Hardy : part one

Courtney Bates-Hardy is the author of House of Mystery (ChiZine, 2016) and a chapbook called Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). Her poems have been published in a variety of literary magazines, including Room, Carousel, and On Spec. Her work is forthcoming in Collective Unrest. She is currently working on her second collection of poetry.

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What are you working on?

I’m currently working on my second collection of poetry, which is tentatively titled The Anatomy of a Monster. My first book, House of Mystery was all about fairy tales and the various transformations of life, but this collection is mostly about monsters and anatomy and death and injury and recovery.