The Red We Silk

The Red We Silk collects inherited migrations and the weight of familial journeys into a lyric investigation of displacement and longing. Memory abides in the body and the body in memory, propelling the speaker through geographical and spiritual landscapes, desires, and griefs toward the transformative work of discovery. Tender, attentive, and multivocal, these are poems of belonging beyond borders.

Nicole Lachat was born in Edmonton, Canada, to a Peruvian mother and Swiss father. She holds an MFA in creative writing from New York University and recently earned a PhDin English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work has appeared in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Ruminate Magazine, One by Jacar Press, Birdfeast, The Puerto Rico Review, and Poets.org, among others. She was awarded the 2022 Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize through the Academy of American Poets and received a 2024 Individual Arts Fellowship through the Nebraska Arts Council. Lachat is a Banff Arts Centre fellow.