Anna Abraham Gasaway (She/Her) is an emerging disabled writer published in Frontier, Zone 3, Cream City Review, Poetry International, Anti-Heroin Chic, One Art and others. She received her MFA from SDSU and serves as an editorial assistant for the Los Angeles Review. She can be found on BlueSky: @annagasaway.bsky.social, Twitter/X at @Yawp97 and IG: annagasaway.
PRAISE:
In My Mother’s Husbands, Gasaway turns a clear, unsentimental gaze on a mother whose string of husbands leaves little room for her children. With wit and formal control, these poems nod to the sonnet tradition, recasting unrequited love as a daughter’s quiet ache for care and constancy. In “After the Fall,” a rare moment of rescue by the father is echoed later in “Hush,” where the speaker imagines sinking peacefully to the bottom of a pool—a vision of surrender that resists, but doesn’t escape, the pull of her mother’s world. The bond between mother and daughter forms the book’s true center, defined as much by absence as by longing, and the cost of walking away is felt in every silenced note.
–Blas Falconer, author most recently of Rara Avis, winner of the Thom Gunn award and Forgive the Body Its Failure
In this tenacious and vulnerable collection, the speaker embarks on a quest to break generational trauma. Here, inheritance becomes a burden and memory a wound. Both church and home are recast as sites of danger. In these intimate and raw poems, Gasaway reaches beyond the colloquial narrative scaffolding built on each page, past portraiture and nostalgic imagery into a terrain where agency is reclaimed through grit and grace.
–Brent Ameneyro, author of A Face out of Clay and Puebla
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