Ragweed Body is a 10-poem chapbook, winner of the 2022 National Federation of State Poetry Societies College Undergraduate Competition Edna Meudt Memorial Award, featuring poems that received the 2021 Roy Crane Award for Literary Achievement honorable mention.
“These poems read like songs, like arias, and stay with us like ragweed.”
— Danielle Lejeune, poetry author and editor
“Piña’s free forms match her eclectic pairings and surprising revelations about adulthood––wilderness, desire and disorder.”
— Hayley Forys, M.A., English Teacher
“From mud and moss, a boombox and a hurricane, from a church pew and a mountain top, Ingrid Piña builds us a new mythology for coming-of-age, where a young woman learns from the land she lives on how to embody both bold agent and loving observer at once. ”
— Sam Rush, author of SWALLOW
