by Gwen Aube (Author)
train hopping
pill popping
fur wearing
sink pissing
tranny
punk
odes!
"Gwen is my favourite kind of poet, the kind with clear eyes that truly see other humans." --katherena vermette, author of The Break and Procession
"Will make you cackle so heinously your roommate asks what you are choking on." --South Broadway Press
As heard on CBC - An Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer Book for April
Tweaking working-class colloquialisms into new forms of elegy and song, Gwen Aube's hilarious and uncompromising poems chronicle a precarious, debaucherous carnival of trailer-trash divas and Discord autistics, living and delighting in survival at the edges of technocapital.
Like a digital-age Wanda Coleman, like a transsexual Kevin Killian, like Elizabeth Smart infused with Sybil Lamb,
Missed Connections with Tall Girls establishes Aube as a brash and unstoppable singular voice for a monstrous new world.
Author Biography
Gwen Aube is a working-class writer living in Montreal, Quebec. Her work has appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review, The New Orleans Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Expat Press, and Room Magazine. She is a 2025 Artist-in-Residence with the Ontario Heritage Council, a Kevin Killian scholarship recipient for the Jack Kerouac School Summer Writing Program, and was a finalist for the PEN Canada New Voices award. She is the author of the chapbook Pulp Necrosis (above/ground press, 2025).
Number of Pages: 104
Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.1 x 6.1 IN
Publication Date: April 07, 2026
