Adventures Among The X Challenged

About the Book

“Tennessee Reed is a brand new star in the galaxy of our spirit—shining for all of our people.”--Simon Ortiz, author of Telling and Showing Her “Reed writes with clarity, wit, and wonder—and with an open-hearted passion that disarms, refreshes, and delights.”--Al Young, author of Something About the Blues “I admire your poems very much…your exceptional imagination and profusion of imagery, your spirit, your perceptions, your sensibility. I treasure your book and really eagerly look forward to reading more…” Adrienne Kennedy, Obie award winning playwright “The younger they come the harder we fall.” Vance Bourjaily, novelist “This is positive solid assertive poetic truths coming from where language makes it—language which was before us and will be after us—manifesting its power through a young receiving mind.” Victor H. Cruz, poet

About the Author

Tennessee Reed is the author of six poetry collections, most recently New and Selected Poems 1982-2011, (World Parade Books, 2011), and a memoir Spell Albuquerque Memoirs of a “Difficult Student” (Counterpunch and AK Press, 2009). Adventures Among the X Challenged is her first published novel. Ms. Reed has read her work throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Israel, Palestine and Japan. She has received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and her M.F.A from Mills College. Ms. Reed is the managing editor of Konch Magazine and the secretary of PEN Oakland