Feral Citizens
by Aimée Lê and Fiona Chamness


In Feral Citizens, Aimee Le and Fiona Chamness write poems that pluck, prick, and howl over what it means to be a young and very wild citizen attempting to crown the world.  In this emerging authors debut poetry collection, Le and Chamness explore questions of citizenship in a world teeming with energy, reaching out to issues of feminism, sexuality, and childhood reverie. ​

 PictureFiona Chamness
Fiona Chamness is a writer, poet, and performer from Ann Arbor, MI. She was part of the 2008 Ann Arbor Youth Poetry Slam team featured on HBO's Brave New Voices and is coauthor (with Aimée Lê) of the poetry collection Feral Citizens, published in 2011 by Red Beard Press. She has performed in Ann Arbor, Chicago, St. Louis, and Hanover, NH. She has also performed on the WU-Slam team at NPS 2011. She has poems published in PANK, Muzzle, and Blood Lotus magazines and attended Oberlin College in Ohio.
Aimée Lê is a PhD candidate in Practice-Based Poetics at Royal Holloway, University of London; co-author, with Fiona Chamness, of the poetry collection Feral Citizens; has taught workshops across the country and has presented her work at conferences such as Allied Media and AWP. She was a founding member of Occupy Dartmouth.

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"The extent to which the well-documented literary talent of this town stretches down the age scale never fails to blow me away. Aimée Lê and Fiona Chamness, the two formidable authors of this sometimes playful, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes just nakedly raw collection both grew up here and remain Ann Arbor WordWorks members (that's our collegiate poetry group) even as they attend Dartmouth and Oberlin Colleges, respectively." -Leah DuMouchel, Ann Arbor News

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