“In Swollening, Purcell tears open and probes beneath the physical with precision, only to stitch it back up for intimacy—viscerally encapsulating the push and pull, shrink and swell of being embodied. A welcome debut by a sophisticated and promising writer.” —Vivek Shraya, author of even this page is white and I’m Afraid of Men

Jason Purcell is a writer and musician from amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6, (Edmonton, Alberta), where they are also the co-owner of Glass Bookshop. As a chronically ill writer, they write at the intersection of queerness and illness and is the author of the chapbook A Place More Hospitable (Anstruther Press). Swollening is their first full-length collection.