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Summer of the Cicadas is for sale now!

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“This bleak, slim novel packs a great deal of insight into depression, desire, and substance abuse from the perspective of a gay woman struggling to move forward in her life (“I still want to die sometimes, but I’m better at pretending”), and the merciless cicadas make for a moving metaphor of the wreckage Jessica must face and overcome. Catherine’s frightening vision makes for a worthy exercise in small-town horror.” – Publishers Weekly


Chelsea Catherine is a writer living in St. Petersburg, FL. After graduating from the University of Tampa with their MFA in creative writing, they moved to the Florida Keys where they wrote their first book and began studying nonfiction.

Most recently, they won the Mary C Mohr award for nonfiction through the Southern Indiana Review and their novel, Summer of the Cicadas, won the Quill Prose Award from Red Hen Press. Chelsea is a nonbinary lesbian and has been writing since the age of eight. They signed with Mary C. Moore of Kimberley Cameron & Associates in 2020.

Check out their blog at Medium!

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