Join us on
 Wednesday, May 14 
at 
7pm
 when we welcome
 Mia Ayumi Malhotra
 for the launch of her new collection, 
Mothersalt
, at 
9th Ave
! Featuring fellow poets 
Jennifer S. Cheng, Shelley Wong, 
and a special introduction by
 Cathy Linh Che. 
Presented in proud partnership by 
Green Apple Books on the Park
 and 
The Ruby
.
The first 30 attendees who register for this event 
and
 pre-order 
Mothersalt 
from Green Apple Books will receive a limited-edition book bundle from the author, which will include a hand-bound journal, furoshiki wrapping cloth, and a surprise object (or two) from the book. Book bundles and preorders will be available for pickup at the event.
Free RSVP available! Books Available for Purchase at the Event
Mask Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or Watch on YouTube Live/Link Available Soon
Can't join us for the event? You can preorder a signed/personalized copy 
here
!
Praise for 
Mothersalt
"Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s 
Mothersalt 
charts—astoundingly, wondrously—the vast territories of the unnarratable that constitute motherhood, revealing to us how maternal caretaking is a locus of astonishing collisions: between profound intimacies and estrangements, mergings and fracturings, awakenings and bewilderments, violences, and heady joys. Malhotra’s poems defy category, capturing motherhood with brilliance, rawness, and urgency. A wholly irreducible translation of what is ultimately outside of representation."
—Jenny Xie, author of
 
The Rupture Tense
"In the wake of the wound that is birth, what does it mean to begin anew? Ardently, and with stunning precision, Mia Ayumi Malhotra mines the language of gestation and the collective wisdom of other mother-poets to (re)write the origin story. Part living archive of matrilineal inheritance; part daybook of pregnancy, birth, and the blurred beauty of early motherhood, 
Mothersalt
 enacts the ongoingness of a becoming rooted in the psyche-body. Born of the intertwined labors of making and mothering and imbued with a Winnicottian poetics of tenderness and tending, these lyrics are lifeworld.”
—Heidi Van Horn, author of
 
Belated Poem
About 
Mothersalt
Drawing from the sticky, milk-drenched reality of childbirth and pregnancy,
 
Mothersalt
 
explores the intimacies and bewilderment of early motherhood, illuminating the myriad ways in which the self, reconstituted through birth, can emerge into powerful, lyrical new forms of existence.
With haunting precision, 
Mothersalt
 
explores the ways in which the lyric self is split apart and stitched back together through the experience of pregnancy and early motherhood. Interspersed with tender addresses to a child in utero, 
Mothersalt
 recounts the fraught disorientation of giving birth in America, where birthing bodies are not always recognized as empowered agents of their own story. Through the failures and reversals of the self struggling to reclaim her experience of childbirth, 
Mothersalt
 asserts a powerful new narrative of what is possible, not only in the birthing room, but in all forms of human relation.
At its heart, this is a book about resilience, healing, and joy, and the sustaining life that emerges from practices of embodied care. Through fragmentary forms inspired by Sei Shōnagon’s pillow book and the miscellany prose diaries of medieval Japan, 
Mothersalt
 brings careful, devoted attention to the labor involved in bearing and caring for young children, transforming the dimensions of the everyday and revealing its ephemeral beauty.
About 
Mia Ayumi Malhotra
Mia Ayumi Malhotra
 is the author of 
Isako Isako
, a California Book Award finalist, and winner of the Alice James Award, Nautilus Gold Award for Poetry, National Indie Excellence Award, and Maine Literary Award. She is also the author of the chapbook 
Notes from the Birth Year
, winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Contest. Mia holds degrees in creative writing from Stanford University and the University of Washington, and her work has received the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize. She is a Kundiman Fellow and a founding member of The Ruby SF, a gathering space for women and nonbinary artists. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
About the Jennifer S. Cheng
Jennifer S. Cheng
 is the author of: 
MOON: Letters, Maps, Poems 
(2018), selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize and named a 
Publishers Weekly 
“Best Book of 2018”; 
House A 
(2016), selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize; and 
Invocation: An Essay 
(2010), an image-text chapbook published by New Michigan Press. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, U.S. Fulbright scholar, and Kundiman fellow, among others. Having grown up in Texas, Hong Kong, and Connecticut, she lives in rapture of the coastal prairies of northern California.
About Shelley Wong
Shelley Wong
 is the author of 
As She Appears
 (YesYes Books, 2022), longlisted for the National Book Award for poetry and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian poetry and the Pamet River Prize. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships, residencies, and support from Kundiman, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Montalvo Arts Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, among others. She lives in San Francisco. 
About The Ruby
The Ruby 
is a collective of Bay Area nonbinary, transfeminine, and woman-identified creatives who have a desire to learn, curiosity, and a range of interests—and who continually seek enrichment. It's for those who are passionate about their creative and professional pursuits and want to share them with others, who value community and are interested in new friendships — especially outside of their chosen fields of work. More than just a workspace, The Ruby offers its members opportunities to learn new skills and engage over a communal table of food and drink made by local nonbinary, transfeminine, and woman-identified chefs, restaurateurs, and wine makers.
Accessibility
The event is located on the ground level, and there are no stairs between the entrance and event space.
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