Elissa Sweet Editor and Artist

The poems in Ending the War on My Body are in turns lyrical, raw, wistful, vivid, hopeful and angry, weaving together as a collection to form a story of hard-won self-acceptance and, ultimately, a love letter to the person in the mirror. It’s about the way we see ourselves and the way society tells us to be—and how it’s quite possible that the battle we’ve been waging on ourselves doesn’t need to be fought after all. I highly recommend this collection to anyone with a body, whether you love it or not.

-Elissa Sweet editor and artist