I'm So Fine

<p><strong>Included in U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's feature 6 Recent Collections that Deliver Truth with Originality and Grace in <em>O The Oprah Magazine</em> April 2018</strong></p><p><strong>Finalist CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction 2018</strong></p><p><strong>Finalist American Book Fest Best Book Award in Fiction 2018</strong></p><p><strong>Finalist Balcones Poetry Prize 2017</strong></p><p><strong>Longlist Julie Suk Award 2018</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Part 1980s and 1990s nostalgia part exuberant storytelling</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> turns a sharply humorous magnifying glass onto gendered interactions in daily life framed primarily by random celebrity encounters in Los Angeles. Far from a narrative of fame-chasing or conceit however </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>I'm So Fine</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> breathlessly addresses what it means for a woman to fight for dignity and survival in an often hostile environment to come into her own power as she decides what she wants for herself & mostly gets its every fineness.</span></p>