These ten strikingly original stories explore love and escape—how we escape to love, escape through love, and escape ourselves and hold on to love. Together, the stories of highlight the acrobatic, courageous circus acts we all learn to perform.
Rhonda Douglas is the award-winning author of Some Days I Think I Know Things: The Cassandra Poems (2008), and Welcome to the Circus: Stories (2015). She is a former Poetry Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine and completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Colombia. Originally from Newfoundland, she now lives in Ottawa, Canada, on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.