Human Heartbeat Detected

Clammer, Chelsey

Human Heartbeat Detected

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Human Heartbeat Detected
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Chelsey Clammer is the author of the award-winning essay collection, Circadian (Red Hen Press 2017), and BodyHome (Hopewell Publications 2015). Her work has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Hobart, Brevity, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Normal School, and Black Warrior Review. She teaches online writing classes with WOW! Women on Writing and is a freelance editor. Chelsey received an MFA in creative writing from Rainier Writing Workshop, and an MA in women’s studies from Loyola University Chicago. She currently resides in Colorado.
2022
Published by: Red Hen Press

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COURSE ADOPTION POTENTIAL: For university courses on Writing with Trauma
FOR FANS OF Elissa Washuta’s bestseller, My Body is a Book of Rules
CONTENT WARNING: Self-harm, domestic abuse, emotional abuse

Human Heartbeat Detected is a collection of essays that explores how we are wonderfully and terrifyingly human. Hitting on themes such as trauma, emotional abuse, marriage, mental illness, and grief, these essays delve into how humans are simultaneously beautiful and terrible to one another. Though regardless of how we might make each other shatter, our hearts continue beating—even when we might not want them to—and we wade through the wreckage of our lives to find ways to survive. With exquisite language and captivating storytelling, the essays in Human Heartbeat Detected face what it means to be human.