TWENTYSOMETHING (paperback)

“At once vivid and lyrical, the poems in Twentysomething are for the girls who grew up on the internet and are still trying to find their footing IRL. Meg’s observations are equal parts wry and heartbreaking… I loved every second spent with this book.”

— Rosie Accola, author of “Supernormal Stimuli”

“Megan Williams's work is a study in contrasts; there is no living poet that does soft, tender sentences as sharply edged with gutting vulnerability as she does. Twentysomething seethes and aches while offering its jaw defiantly to the world. This is a story of survival in spite of self-sabotage, a ruthless cross examination of trauma and all tiny victories we carve painstakingly, inches at a time, in its wake. Meg writes fearlessly, even as her mind and body betray her—this is some of the bravest, most brilliant poetry that will ever settle in your bones.”

— Kirsti MacKenzie, writer & editor-in-chief of Major 7th Magazine

“Megan Williams’s Twentysomething walks with the reader, not down or through a path, but in circles. A devastatingly clear snapshot of a painful period of time, Meg’s work spirals from harmful cyclic thoughts all the way down to the source of pain itself. Twentysomething lends insightful, uncompromising language to things that often hurt too much to put into words—a true gift.”

— Kimberly Wolf, author of “How the Frogs Get Married”

Megan Williams is a writer in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the author of “Window Person,” published with Sybil Lit. You can find her online @megannn_lynne.