"The lives women lead always cost. We pay with our flesh."
Tender is the Body is a raw exploration of womanhood. Alise Versella caresses the supple and delicate, eulogizes the sensual, and stokes the fires of feminine outrage all in equal measure.
Alise Versella is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominated contributing writer for Rebelle Society. She is the author of the full-length When Wolves Become Birds (Golden Dragonfly Press 2021) A Psalm for the Weary (Alien Buddha Press 2023) and the forthcoming chapbook Maenads of the 21st Century (Dancing Girl Press). She has been published widely in such journals as the Opiate, Crack the Spine, Steam Ticket, Penumbra Literary and Arts Journal, Luna Arcana, Soup Can Magazine, The Poeming Pigeon, Circle Show, White Stag Journal, El Portal, Evening Street Review, Press Pause Press, and Soundings East. She was long listed for Palette Poetry's 2021 Sappho Prize. Versella has worked with Women's Spiritual Poetry, whose latest anthology, Goddess: When She Rules, raised money for the Malala Fund. Kirkus has called her "...[A] boundlessly energetic and promising technician [who] crafts a unique blend of the symbolist and the confessional." You can connect with her at www.aliseversella.com.
