Fat Girl Forms

Written entirely in traditional and invented forms, Stephanie Rogers’ Fat Girl Forms explores how it feels to move one’s body in a world not built to hold it. She examines the way society humiliates fat women, especially those who don’t conform to conventional standards of beauty. Brash, sassy, and in your face, this second full-length collection depicts one fat woman's challenge to a culture that constantly tells them that they are unwanted, unloved, unworthy, all of this done in verse forms full of panache and élan.

Stephanie Rogers is the author of Plucking the Stinger (2016) and Fat Girl Forms (2021), both published by Saturnalia Books. She grew up in Middletown, Ohio and was educated at The Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. She lives outside of Nashville in Lebanon, TN.