"McCord, in RUN SCREAM UNBURY SAVE, reignites the curious rotary engine of curiosity, the spirographic folding back, that ululation, as a great storyteller confronting the unique high-techery of the book. Believe me, this book cannot, ever, be made into a movie or binge TV series or streamed video. No, it is a book’s BOOK. A map more detailed than the thing it represents. It confronts the BOOK and does what only the BOOK can do and does it with goddamn gumption and infinite grace. Katherine McCord’s life here is an open book book, and the fine instrument of that opening is the story of that story." —Michael Martone 

"Katherine McCord has changed the terms of engagement from labyrinth to chambered nautilus. She explores—with searing insight and humility and sensitive intelligence—the movement through terrible forms of solitude into the blessed difficulties of summoning her beloved ones, past and present, for a new dance. Madness and aloneness and despair and shame echo through RUN SCREAM UNBURY SAVE, but the whole effect is the unforgettable release of the human cry freed to roam the world." —Kevin McIlovy

Katherine McCord is the author of Island (poems, March Street), Living Room (prose poems, March Street), My CIA (lyric essay-memoir, TOSP), Run Scream Unbury Save (lyric essay-memoir, winner of the Autumn House Nonfiction Prize). She has an MA in Creative Writing (NMSU) and an MFA in Creative Writing (Warren Wilson).