In Celebration of Black History Month, Katerina Canyon Announces the Release of Her New Book

LOS ANGELES - Feb. 10, 2021 - PRLog -- In celebration of Black History Month, Award Winning Poet and Best Selling Author Katerina Canyon has announced the upcoming release of her book Surviving Home, a reflection on African American heritage and up-bringing.

Concisely arresting and challenging the beliefs of family and the fantasies of tradition, the poems in Surviving Home show that home is a place that you endure rather than a place where you are nurtured. With unyielding cadence and unparalleled sadness and warmth, Katerina Canyon contemplates the prejudice and limitations buried in a person's African American heritage: parents that seem to care for you with one hand and slap you with the other, the secret desires to be released from the daily burdens of life, as well as the surprising ways a child chooses to amuse herself. Finding resilience in the unexpected, this collection tears down the delicate facades of family.

About the Author:

Katerina Canyon is an Award Winning Poet, Best Selling Author, civil rights activist, essayist, and poet. She grew up in Los Angeles and much of her writing reflects that experience.

Her first book of poetry, Changing the Lines (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1548379069/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp...), was released in August 2017. This work is a conversation between mother and daughter as they examine what it means to operate within the world as black women.

Katerina Canyon is a 2020 and 2019 Pushcart Prize Nominee. Her stories have been published in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/nyregion/metropolitan-...), The Huffington Post (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/domestic-abuse_b_8332878), and Folks (https://folks.pillpack.com/confessions-of-a-recovering-superwoman/). Her poetry has been published in CatheXis Northwes (http://www.cathexisnorthwestpressarchive.com/the-last-lecture-penance-womens-march/)t, The Esthetic Apostle (https://www.estheticapostle.com/leaving-a-mark), Into the Void, Black Napkin, and Waxing & Waning (https://www.waxingandwaning.org/issue-03/2-poems-by-katerina-canyon/).  From 2000 to 2003, she served as the Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga. During that time, she started a poetry festival and ran several poetry readings. She has a B.A. in English, International Studies and Creative Writing from Saint Louis University and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Katerina moved to Seattle three years ago. She is currently running a civil rights campaign against police brutality. More information can be found at www.vdaycampaign.org.

Katerina's latest book, Surviving Home, will be released in October 2021 published by Kelsay Books.

Readers can connect with Katerina on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/poehtickat/), Twitter (https://twitter.com/PoeticKat), Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17176060.Katerina_Canyon), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/katerinacanyon). To learn more, go to https://www.poetickat.com/

To request a review copy of Surviving Home or an interview with Katerina Canyon, please contact Kelsey at Book Publicity Services (https://bookpublicityservices.com/) at (805) 807-9027 or Kelsey@BookPublicityServices.com