Features & Reviews

In her newest novel, All This Can Be True (Keylight Books, 2025), Michalski makes readers want to break out the black eyeliner and catch a show headlining (the excellently named) Clit Girls.

If you can laugh about a difficult situation, laugh in your aggressor’s face, it gives you a sense of power.

Despair is a luxury, but hope is a discipline.

I’m curious about a world in which people are less bothered by the physical confrontation of mental disability, and that felt important when I was writing this book to have mental disability take up physical space in the poems and the pages.