The Book of Bella and Peach Woman

Authors: Zoe Tuck and Emily Hunerwadel

Publisher: DoubleCross Press (2022)

Two chapbooks bound together. Edition of 250.

“The Book of Bella is an epic poem whose sections I am publishing serially. Before I transitioned and settled on the name Zoe, I struggled to appear under a different name, Bella. I began thinking about this self who almost, but never quite emerged. The tenderness I feel for her motivates me to write this epic as a space for Bella to be and to speak.”

-Zoe Tuck

“Like [Zoe’s] Bella, Peach Woman calls back to a figure that could have been me. Writing this, I was obsessed with the idea that memory isn't like a filing cabinet or database, but instead like taking a copy of a copy, each time losing fidelity. I wanted to rewrite the past, edit the copies. I also wondered how desire impacts the past. I remember past fantasies as vividly as the memories. I believe too that when you're a body in hiding some of the sweetest memories are those spent in your imagination. Peach Woman is my insistence that I can write what I want and have her become less shadow as she is read and thought of, living in the heads of the thinkers.”

-Emily Hunerwadel