The Year of the Butterfly is a slippery collection of poems, composed in the back bathrooms of Soho gay bars and the muddy woods of Essex. In its queer and confessional fragments, bodies, lives, and loves are formed and reformed in clay and glitter; the unruly dead are eulogized on coffee shop napkins, and the promise of tomorrow is the eternal driving force. These poems are questions and answers; stories of change, growth, and endings. Proof that it is never too late to become who we truly are.
TESTIMONIALS
A collection of uncanny fairy stories rebooted, queered, and running amok on the streets after midnight. A collection that is defiantly alive and viscerally truthful whilst also speaking tenderly with the dead. —SL GRANGE, author, BODIES AND OTHER HAUNTED HOUSES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Abigail Mitchell is a London-born writer and cultural historian whose work explores the hidden lives of queer women throughout history. She is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Southampton, where her research uses creative history to examine the experiences of queer women during the English witch trials.
Mitchell works as a writer, commissioning editor, and researcher for Dorling Kindersley and other major publishers, bringing her expertise in cultural history to a wide range of projects.
She holds an MA Honours in History from the University of Cambridge (2013), where she specialized in American History. In 2015, she graduated from the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, where she also served as an assistant lecturer. Specializing in one-hour drama screenwriting, Mitchell won the Write Brothers Screenplay Contest at the Canada International Film Festival that same year.
Her short stories, flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in various journals and anthologies. Her academic writing includes a thesis exploring the intersection of historicity and modern gender tropes in the women of Michael Hirst's Vikings.
Mitchell lives in London.
The Year of the Butterfly is a slippery collection of poems, composed in the back bathrooms of Soho gay bars and the muddy woods of Essex. In its queer and confessional fragments, bodies, lives, and loves are formed and reformed in clay and glitter; the unruly dead are eulogized on coffee shop napkins, and the promise of tomorrow is the eternal driving force. These poems are questions and answers; stories of change, growth, and endings. Proof that it is never too late to become who we truly are.
TESTIMONIALS
A collection of uncanny fairy stories rebooted, queered, and running amok on the streets after midnight. A collection that is defiantly alive and viscerally truthful whilst also speaking tenderly with the dead. —SL GRANGE, author, BODIES AND OTHER HAUNTED HOUSES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Abigail Mitchell is a London-born writer and cultural historian whose work explores the hidden lives of queer women throughout history. She is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Southampton, where her research uses creative history to examine the experiences of queer women during the English witch trials.
Mitchell works as a writer, commissioning editor, and researcher for Dorling Kindersley and other major publishers, bringing her expertise in cultural history to a wide range of projects.
She holds an MA Honours in History from the University of Cambridge (2013), where she specialized in American History. In 2015, she graduated from the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, where she also served as an assistant lecturer. Specializing in one-hour drama screenwriting, Mitchell won the Write Brothers Screenplay Contest at the Canada International Film Festival that same year.
Her short stories, flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in various journals and anthologies. Her academic writing includes a thesis exploring the intersection of historicity and modern gender tropes in the women of Michael Hirst's Vikings.
Mitchell lives in London.
