Jessica R. Bergamino

"Forget clues—the poems in Girlhood x A Haunting confront a new kind of investigation. How do you solve the mystery of a body when the body is your own? Through Bergamino’s signature and skilled voice, balanced formal tension, and adroit cross-examination of both history and memory, these poems build a new mythology for the queer detective work required of so many of us. Urgent, evocative, and, indeed, haunting, Bergamino has collected Nancy Drew and put her to work on the most vital of missions: self-reclamation. No other poet writing today could handle this case so deftly or with such clever care."
 
— Meg Day, author of Last Psalm at Sea Level