Switchback is thrilled to let the world know that our longtime staff member and current board memberDaniela "Deputy D" Olszewska will have her first two full-length books of poetry published in 2012! CITIZEN J (Artifice Books) cloudfang: : cakedirt (Horse Less Press) She already has a zillion chaps that you can get your hands on right now. Find links to them and read more at her blog.

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Art. Memoir. In this bold and energetic debut, temporal malapropisms become purposeful play through Tamayo's poetics of code switching and homophonics. As Tamayo tackles the frustrations of the transnational immigrant experience, language "mistakes" become "missed aches" and she writes mother and mother-tongue into one as "mouth her." A red thread intrudes throughout this frenetic mixed-genre assemblage, suturing identity to the page by erasing

"People go [to L.A. to follow their dreams, but it's also a place at risk of sliding into the sea." "I'm continually fascinated by by people from bigger cities...who think that small-town Midwest, or small-town anywhere, is somehow more simplistic, naive, innocent than where they're from." My fantastic Switchback co-founders, Brandi Homan and Becca Klaver, were interviewed by Liz Hildreth on Bookslut about their respective books, Bobcat Country and L.A. Liminal. (Note: If