We chatted about the wonder of going to seed, reclaiming our bodies from the patriarchy, and her gorgeous new book Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss.

A powerful, yet tender collection of essays grounded in the body, but giving breath to the fragments of life.

PEN/Bellwether Prize winner Brandeis (The Art of Misdiagnosis) returns with an insightful collection of essays she designates “a map of my writing life,” organized around ways of breathing.

Gayle Brandeis’s novel-in-verse, Many Restless Concerns (a testimony): The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus, is narrated collectively by the hundreds of working-class girls and women who were murdered by the wealthy, powerful countess Erzebet Bathory over the course of thirty years in sixteenth-century Hungary.