Girl God – Stephanie Lane Sutton

“I am trying to admit something that’s true & won’t destroy me.”

Stephanie Lane Sutton’s girl god is both an elegy and an anthem, a charged palimpsest of myth and memory damned to skin and a pulse. These poems are humming with endowment and rupture, fracturing narrative and lifting the skirt of language, witnessing its own rebirth.

girl god moves like a muscle—fragments of hunger, of inheritance, of teeth pressed against the edge of a question. Let these poems lead you barefoot over glass, not to prove a point, but because it was always there. Urgent, luminous, and unrelenting—this book does not ask for permission; it simply insists on being.

Stephanie Lane Sutton was born in Detroit. Her writing has appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Heavy Feather Review, The Offing, Prairie Schooner, and Rhino Poetry, among others. She is the author of the micro-chapbook “Shiny Insect Sex” (Bull City Press) and has a creative writing MFA from the University of Miami. She makes live interactive poetry on Twitch as @AthenaSleepsIn.

edie roberts is a gender mess blessed with excess anxiety and midwestern disposition. they currently live in Detroit, MI where they curate events and conversations all while dreaming of fully-automated leisure utopias and the end of scarcity. their poetry books include Everywhere You Go (bathmatics, 2019), Ain’t Life Grand (pitymilk, 2020), WHAT IF LOVING YOU WASN’T ABOUT ME (bathmatics, 2022 w/ Chelsea Tadeyeske), Thank You (bathmatics, 2023) and If You Need It (bathmatics., 2024) – among others.

28 pages. Hand Sewn. Cover laser printed on silver shimmer craft card-stock

Originally printed in January 2025 with a formal release on April 5th, 2025

Art throughout by Edie Roberts

Layout and design by Chelsea Tadeyeske and Edie Roberts

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