Description
Forthcoming Spring 2025.
Ebony Stewart’s third collection is uncompromising and emotionally raw.
Through trauma and recovery, black girlhood comes of age in WASH, journeying through moments of self-discovery, mental illness, love and heartbreak. Stewart reckons traditional definitions of womxnhood, exploring its complications, its communities, and its queerness.
WASH brutally dissects black womxnhood for all its blood, beauty, sacrifice and strength. With Stewart’s distinct, lyrical voice, WASH is sure to be a collection that will bring you to tears and brighten your day in the same breath.
Praise for Ebony Stewart
“Courageous enough to unbury and tell the truth. Rigorously trained enough to tend to the Light while breaking us Open. Baddass enough to make us laugh a hell yesss out into the room. These poems unpack what we been carrying. This poet is a Priestess. She slays/she conjures/she fights…with every word for us all to be free. We Black womxn. We queer. We children. We grannys. We tender ones. Bless this Gully queen. And Bless yo self. Git dis book. And spread the word.”
— Sharon Bridgforth, writer and USA Artist Fellow
“Vulnerability and boldness do not often coexist, but Ebony Stewart braids them into every poem in WASH. Navigating between the emotional labor expected of Black women and the Hallelujah of the matriarchs in her lineage, Stewart carries us through a cleansing, a freeing, a search for self and the joy we house. WASH is the manual instructing us back into being our own version of pure, whole, powerful while telling our own stories. Ebony has given us her heart in all its raw and perfect glory.”
— Yesika Salvado, author of Corazón
“I never feel more held or challenged than when I am witnessing Ebony Stewart’s poems. Her voice is unmistakable, requires you to sit up and pay attention. These poems do exactly what they promise—get right to the thick mud of it all and call forth a cleansing. By the time you finish this book, you’ll be hanging loneliness out to dry (and maybe cussing a few people out who deserve it). Let WASH do the work it came to do, and get baptized in Ebony’s queer Black womxn glory.”
— Ariana Brown, author of We Are Owed
About Ebony Stewart
Ebony Stewart, most fondly known as Eb or Gully, is an author and international touring interdisciplinary artivist. As a Black womxn writer and performance artist, Ebony Stewart harnesses the power of creativity to explore and challenge societal norms,… MORE
