Joe Baumann is the author of the short story collections Sing with Me at the Edge of Paradise, The Plagues, Where Can I Take You When There’s Nowhere to Go, and Hot Lips, and the novels I Know You’re Out There Somewhere and Lake, Drive. His fiction and essays have appeared in Third Coast, Passages North, Phantom Drift, and many others.

• The VanisherVenerationThe Night of Missing ChildrenVernixThe Time You Give and the Time You TakeLockstepMonarchHoley MoleyRetreatThree StrikesThere Is Love Under This MountainThe Sad StateA Tough Man to LoveGethsemaneShrinkingGlass HammersWe Are Rendered SilentKeep Your Last Breath CloseAcknowledgments

“Like the act of turning a crystal in sunlight, this sharp collection prismatically throws unexpected and beautiful angles, illuminating with grace the lives of queer characters grappling with grief, belonging, desire, a shifting sense of identity, and the ways we are transformed by love. Baumann contributes, with his own style and sensibility, to the larger conversation of what it means to be a queer person in the world today, when equality looks more complicated than abstract notions of capital-P Progress, because freedom has to do with our messy, unreliable, unrelenting hearts.” —Peter Kispert, author of I Know You Know Who I Am

Joe Baumann is the author of the short story collections Sing with Me at the Edge of Paradise, The Plagues, Where Can I Take You When There’s Nowhere to Go, and Hot Lips, and the novels I Know You’re Out There Somewhere and Lake, Drive. His fiction and essays have appeared in Third Coast, Passages North, Phantom Drift, and many others.

• The VanisherVenerationThe Night of Missing ChildrenVernixThe Time You Give and the Time You TakeLockstepMonarchHoley MoleyRetreatThree StrikesThere Is Love Under This MountainThe Sad StateA Tough Man to LoveGethsemaneShrinkingGlass HammersWe Are Rendered SilentKeep Your Last Breath CloseAcknowledgments

“Like the act of turning a crystal in sunlight, this sharp collection prismatically throws unexpected and beautiful angles, illuminating with grace the lives of queer characters grappling with grief, belonging, desire, a shifting sense of identity, and the ways we are transformed by love. Baumann contributes, with his own style and sensibility, to the larger conversation of what it means to be a queer person in the world today, when equality looks more complicated than abstract notions of capital-P Progress, because freedom has to do with our messy, unreliable, unrelenting hearts.” —Peter Kispert, author of I Know You Know Who I Am

Joe Baumann is the author of the short story collections Sing with Me at the Edge of Paradise, The Plagues, Where Can I Take You When There’s Nowhere to Go, and Hot Lips, and the novels I Know You’re Out There Somewhere and Lake, Drive. His fiction and essays have appeared in Third Coast, Passages North, Phantom Drift, and many others.

• The VanisherVenerationThe Night of Missing ChildrenVernixThe Time You Give and the Time You TakeLockstepMonarchHoley MoleyRetreatThree StrikesThere Is Love Under This MountainThe Sad StateA Tough Man to LoveGethsemaneShrinkingGlass HammersWe Are Rendered SilentKeep Your Last Breath CloseAcknowledgments

“Like the act of turning a crystal in sunlight, this sharp collection prismatically throws unexpected and beautiful angles, illuminating with grace the lives of queer characters grappling with grief, belonging, desire, a shifting sense of identity, and the ways we are transformed by love. Baumann contributes, with his own style and sensibility, to the larger conversation of what it means to be a queer person in the world today, when equality looks more complicated than abstract notions of capital-P Progress, because freedom has to do with our messy, unreliable, unrelenting hearts.” —Peter Kispert, author of I Know You Know Who I Am