Bio

Ron Riekki's books include U.P. (Ghost Road Press), Posttraumatic (Hoot 'n' Waddle), and the upcoming My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland's Apprentice House Press, 2019) and i have been warned not to write about this (Main Street Rag, 2020). Riekki co-edited Undocumented (Michigan State University Press) and The Many Lives of The Evil Dead (McFarland), and edited And Here (MSU Press), Here (MSU Press, Independent Publisher Book Award), and The Way North (Wayne State University Press, Michigan Notable Book). He has anthologies upcoming with Edinburgh University Press, McFarland, MSU Press, and WSU Press.

They say to be diseased is to be haunted. They don't say that.
I say that. Because I'm diseased. I'm haunted.
The ghosts have no brainstems,
have no flowers
in their
heads.
Headless,
they haunt
just by being.
I am like that. Look.
Do you see the hells of these lungs?
The melody of cancer that plays in the emptiness of all of us?