Xanax Cowboy

Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary Award
Winner, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial Award

The Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake. She might as well be a strike-anywhere match in a gasoline town. Her whiskey is mixed with vengeance like her mind is mixed with pills. The last doctor who told her she ain't nothin' is still spitting blood through a split lip.