Meg Ford is a queer writer from New Jersey who was voted Most Likely to Leave and Never Come Back. They are a two-time National Poetry Slam semi-finalist with the Boston Poetry Slam Team and received their MFA from Emerson College. Their work has previously appeared in The Rumpus, NAILED, PANK, and the We Will Be Shelter Anthology from Write Bloody. Meg can most often be found hanging out with the cat at your party.
Wild/Hurt by Meg Ford takes the abstract ‘journey’ of trauma recovery and makes it concrete with interactive poetics. The reader is immersed in multiple paths that mirror the choices, experiences, and struggles one makes when reclaiming themselves in the face of sexual abuse.
While being intensely personal, Wild/Hurt moves resonantly through memory and healing in a way that can speak to many survivors. Through its hardships and suffering, this collection comes to realize and love the intimate parts of itself. Ford’s work encompasses a survivor’s entire personhood–growing from their trauma, discovering and celebrating queerness, and living and loving with disability.
Wild/Hurt is a rich, heartfelt collection that makes the reading an experience, telling a new, remarkable story with each reread.
“Full of fresh and urgent imagery, Wild/Hurt pulls us directly by the heart, through any and every path we choose. A triumph of form and content: a battle cry, a wail through the dark, a love letter home.”
— Ollie Schminkey, Where I Dry the Flowers
“With confidence and care, Meg Ford has crafted a labyrinth brimming with memory, pain, forgiveness, and possibility. Then, they’ve asked us to navigate it.”
— Zach Goldberg, I’d Rather Be Destroyed
Buy Now“Even the unspoken margins of these poems haunt: “Look at the story I have become.” Wild/Hurt will see you as you witness all it contains. With searing lyricism, Ford will hold you, teach you, and let you go. ”
– George Abraham, Birthright
