Honeybee

Description

Trista Mateer is a visual artist, poet, writer and freelance editor who began putting words on paper at twelve and never found a good enough reason to stop. Known for her eponymous blog, she is now the author of multiple poetry collections, including When The Stars Wrote Back (2020), Aphrodite Made Me Do It (2019), Honeybee (2018), and The Dogs I Have Kissed (2015) which won a Goodreads Choice Award the year of its release.

She currently lives in a house by the sea in New Jersey; and when she’s not wrangling her cat, Honeybun, she stares out at the water and waits for the words to wash ashore.

“A collection that will beg you to be dogeared, coffee-stained, & shared.”–Amanda Lovelace, author of the princess saves herself in this one

“A spine tingling, heart wrenching, goosebumps-across-your-skin experience.”–Nikita Gill, author of Fierce Fairytales

“With Honeybee, Trista has captured in amber something beautiful and tragic, joyful and painful. It’s an incredibly moving journey that takes you from coffee shops to Australia, to boys with vodka on their breath and a girl with yellow hair. Her poems are both incredibly specific and relatable for anyone who’s ever lost someone for the wrong reasons. It’s a powerful book and Trista Mateer is a powerful, loud voice in contemporary poetry.”–Iain S. Thomas, Author of I Wrote This For You