Roya Backlund

Juice Roya Backlund

As though revealing the ingredients to her own girlhood, Roya Backlund shares with us her debut collection of poetry and prose, Juice. Guided by a voice that aches with vulnerability (and oftentimes brazen honesty), Juice explores themes of love, loss, femininity, abuse, sexism, and the reclaiming of the self. There is the juice just waiting to burst. There's the salt left behind once everything has evaporated. It's what drips when a woman's story is squeezed.