Fluid States: Essays

A collection of lyric essays that considers the way subjects, stories, facts, and memories are as interconnected as streams in a watershed, Heidi Czerwiec’s Fluid States explores the interlocking issues created by the oilfields of North Dakota; the ephemerality of perfume, canning tomatoes, a fungus that infects and transforms mushrooms; and being the focus of internet hate. Short essays that present delightfully surprising facts with elegant and lyric language, her pieces all share underlying currents that question assumptions about gender, violence, reason, and intuition.

• The Skinned Bird
• The Best Small Fictions 2018
• The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series)
• Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
• Transcendentalism: A Reader
• Micrograms
• Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres
• Postcards from Here
• Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
• The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)