Eira Quinn's work explores gender, patriarchy, queer identity, grief, rage, tenderness, and the struggle to stay soft in a brutal world.
She came to poetry privately, as a way to process what she couldn't say out loud. After watching the growing influence of religion on politics and public life, she decided that staying quiet wasn't an option. That fighting required noise. And she'd seen what the right words could do, as other writers had given her solace by naming what she couldn't. She decided to try to do the same.
She writes for the ones who still flinch at old threats, and are learning to trust what they know anyway.
