risis Chronicles Press is pleased to announce the publication of Soul Picked Clean, the debut poetry collection by Ohio writer Cat Russell. "In Soul Picked Clean Cat Russell provides a thoughtful and hopeful collection of sharp-edged, personal poems that balance themes of 'cosmic coincidence' ('Dice') with close observations of daily life and family. Knitting together comfort and struggle, Russell’s poems build a sense of alienation filled with tense urgency. In poems like 'Serial Killer at the Laundromat' she brings to focus measured risks, remaining 'acutely conscious of / how alone I am”' and 'Balloon,' which imagines the growth and deflation of memory and life through 'the events / that would shape and fill me.'If 'Children see the things adults turn away from' ('2 a.m.'), they are also evident in the honest insights of Russell’s debut collection." —EF Schraeder, author of Chapter Eleven. Soul Picked Clean is around 100 pages, perfect bound, 5.5 x 8.5". 978-1-64092-978-4. Front cover photo by Chandra Alderman.