Leafskin

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Pub Date Mar 25 2025 | Archive Date Mar 25 2025

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Description

“A fresh, intricately-written and dreamlike novel about love, creativity and the natural world.”
--Jane Borodale, author of The Knot

A poet and her husband have been trying to make a baby. But while undergoing fertility treatments in the midst of a harrowing wildfire season, Jo reconsiders raising a child in a time of climate crisis. When her artist ex-girlfriend, who has always had an uncanny connection to nature, re-enters her life, Jo struggles to navigate the transformations in her relationships and realities.

Miranda Schmidt's lyrical debut novel blurs the boundaries between poetry and prose, human and nonhuman, reality and magic. A tale of queer love, new motherhood, and ecological interconnectedness, Leafskin interrogates how we create, and what we become, in a time of environmental devastation. 

“A fresh, intricately-written and dreamlike novel about love, creativity and the natural world.”
--Jane Borodale, author of The Knot

A poet and her husband have been trying to make a baby. But while...


Advance Praise

“A fresh, intricately-written and dreamlike novel about love, creativity and the natural world.”
--Jane Borodale, author of The Knot

"Leafskin expands our understanding of inheritance...Miranda Schmidt tells Jo's story through a prism queerly, challenging narrow ideas of what one person can inherit from an other—be they lover, tree, mythical creature, or element. It's into these intricate webs of relation that Leafskin settles like love, always shifting with the light, sometimes familiar, sometimes scary, sometimes unrecognizable, until we realize we've been living inside it all along."
--Callum Angus, author of A Natural History of Transition 

“In Leafskin, Miranda Schmidt’s remarkable first novel, short chapters as lyrical as prose poems weave and twine to probe what it means to make something grow in this time of climate destruction: a tree, a marriage, a poem, a painting, a friendship, a child.”
--Maya Sonenberg, author of Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters

"What makes this novel so powerful is the fictional fabric of the narrative that weaves a lyrical and sensory-driven voice that take the reality of today's news and delivers it not from a bully pulpit, but with every prick of a needle, with each breath of smoke, with the embrace of those who love. Below the tree tops, the world is called the forest's understory. In Leafskin, we find ourselves to be that understory."
-- Shawn Wong, author of American Knees 

“A fresh, intricately-written and dreamlike novel about love, creativity and the natural world.”
--Jane Borodale, author of The Knot

"Leafskin expands our understanding of inheritance...Miranda...


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  • Trade advertising and newsletter promotion
  • Online outreach for interview, review, and roundup attention
  • Web promotions and reviews
  • Social network campaign...

Available Editions

EDITION Ebook
ISBN 9781945233289
PRICE $18.00 (USD)
PAGES 307

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