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It’s been six months since Metonymy published its first children’s book, and the enthusiasm readers young and old show for Dear Black Girls isn’t waning.

A Natural History of Transition is Callum Angus’s debut collection of short stories whose fleshed-out settings are inextricable from the other themes running through them—of expansive and expanding transformation, of rot and decay, of restrained longing and colonial devastation and impossibly finding friendship.

Author, educator, and literary translator Kama La Mackerel discusses the story behind their debut collection of decolonial lyric poetry.

Sending love to everyone – those with precarious incomes, compromised immunity, illness, anxiety, high-risk work environments, whose friends and families are far, whose roommates are terrible, who provide or require essential services, whose living situations are already painful.