Where Fish Go to Drown, by Débora E. Sanchez

Poetry, chapbook, 20 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Where Fish Go to Drown is an imaginative, evocative, and proudly “weird” book seeped in the woes of life as a transgender individual. The poems are structured in chronological order: illuminating a story of suppression becoming expression, with a tone that is dark and surreal.

The author believes there is a holiness in sincerity, and through the bleak tone remains an atmosphere of eagerness that cuts through the dread bleeding from the real world to the page. Above all else, this book is about the exploration of death in life, and life in death–inextricable opposites we waltz with until the end.

Débora E. Sanchez is a transgender author living in the United States. She writes poetry with the primary goal of making peace with those circumstances. She is a student at Johnson & Wales University and is looking to pursue a career in food writing.