Nikia Chaney of San Bernardino, CA, is the author of us mouth (University of Hell Press, 2018) and two chapbooks, Sis Fuss (2012, Orange Monkey Publishing) and ladies, please (2012, Dancing Girl Press). She has served as Inlandia Literary Laureate (2016-2018), and her poetry has been published in Sugarhouse Review, 491, Iowa Review, Vinyl, and Pearl, Welter, and Saranac Review. Her memoir, ladybug, is forthcoming from Inlandia in 2022.
Cynthia Arrieu-King exclaims over to stir &: “Chaney’s poems chart the ocean of sexual joy in, well, everything. First you drop into the visual wave of Chaney’s poems, then ride along into the various reels. These words dance, dodge, parkour, wander, pivot into saying everything about and through jouissance; sideways salty syncopations and reorderings of every atom charge the page with an energy of creation.”