Chelsea Biondolillo

From award-winning essayist Chelsea Biondolillo, THE SKINNED BIRD is about all the ways we break our own hearts. In lyric, fragmented essays-full of geological, ornithological and photographic interventions, with landscapes, loss, and longing-Biondolillo travels the terrain of leaving and finding home while keeping her sights fixed firm on the natural world around her. Includes "How to Skin a Bird," winner of the Carter Prize for the Essay, and the Best American Essays 2014 notable, "Phrenology."

In her second chapbook, #LOVESONG, Chelsea Biondolillo once again shows that is possible to be both a scientist and a writer. Shattering preconceived notions of love, she instead expresses its more grittier and imperfect faces. Using pieces of history from past relationships, she combines these with her beautiful micro prose alongside bold images of birds in order to create a beautiful blend of love, death, and science.

Ologies is Chelsea Biondolillo's debut chapbook of essays about her relationship as a woman with an interest in science. These memoir-style essays with gruesome imagery form a compelling narrative of Biondolillo's adolescence. Through these descriptions, Biondolillo claims that women can be scientists in a male-dominated, sexist field of study.