Boolean Logic Showcase

Debra L Hartmann

Nov 14

Boolean Logic by Morgan Christie

Synopsis:

Boolean Logic is a collection of twelve interconnected autobiographical essays about coming to terms with the realities of race, gender, and injustice during childhood and young adulthood. Award-winning writer Morgan Christie shares her stories to broach tough subjects, levy social critiques, and relate the intimate particularities of life. Whether through sports or cultural and generational relationships, Christie's essays outline the scope of contemporary issues through a personal lens.

Praise for Boolean Logic:

"A dynamite collection of essays that are heartwarming, humorous, fearless, and ferocious. These essays speak to the heart of the human condition and all its wanting and wondering and glorious mess. Christie is a writer to watch, to read, and to celebrate. Every page is a triumph." —Terry Horstman, USA Today sports media contributor and editor at the Under Review

"Morgan Christie's tender and wise debut collection of lyric essays, Boolean Logic, is impossible to put down…This is a work of extraordinary power." —Kathryn Savage, author of Ground Glass

"Boolean Logic is a fleet and lucid collection of lyric essays. We were drawn to it by the timeliness and importance of its subject matter, the freshness and originality of its voice, and its compassionate view of the human experience. This book opens the mind as it touches the heart." —Jim Cihlar, publisher at Howling Bird Press

Author bio:

Morgan Christie's essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Room, Callaloo, The Hawai'i Review, Sport Literate, and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, Variations on a Lobster's Tale, was the winner of the 2017 Alexander Posey Chapbook Prize, and her first full-length short story manuscript, These Bodies (Tolsun Books, 2020), was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in fiction. Her most recent poetry chapbook, when they come (Black Sunflowers Press, 2021) is featured in the Forward Arts Foundation's National Poetry Day exhibit. She is the 2022 Arc Poetry Poem of the Year Prize recipient, and her collection People Without Wings (Black Sunflowers Press, 2021) is the winner of the 2022 Digging Chapbook Series Prize. Her new short story collection, Boolean Logic, is the winner of the 2023 Howling Bird Press Nonfiction Prize. Her novella Liddle Deaths (Stillhouse Press) is due out in 2024. Christie currently splits her time between North Carolina and Toronto. To learn more, please visit MorganChristieWrites.com.