Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green

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 (FromHouse of Anansi Press).

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Hannah Green is a Winnipeg-basedwriter and poetry editor. She was a poetry finalist for the 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 2023 for Xanax Cowboy.