These Indiana Winters

<p>Queerness family magic and Indiana weather combine in <em>These Indiana Winters </em>Beks Roen's debut chapbook. Their imagination skips across Seussian animals fantastical characters and the struggles of being a queer pastor's kid in the Midwest. Roen's wit and wonder reveals a spark of magic hidden in the everyday. </p><p>Roen chronicles their growing-up years and coming out journey in this little poetic adventure. The speaker has a jumping contest with Jack Frost (they lose) find their gender paralleled in the natural world and finally turn from the turbulence of self-discovery to comfort their younger self.</p>