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"Awarded the 2024 Artist Opportunity Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Christie Cruise's poetry chapbook, Thick Black Lines, discusses themes of grief and loss, policing Black bodies, and gentrification and colonization. Divided into three sections named for the book's title, Thick Black Lines quickly grabs the reader's attention with poems like Depression Be Like and While You Were Judging Me for Being Fat in the first section, Thick, which explores ""heavy"" topics such as mental health and sexual abuse. Black grapples with topics related to contemporary social justice issues that specifically impact Black people with poems like When Karens Cry and Attacking Critical Race Theory Won't Make Me Forget. Lines focuses on poems that reflect the effects of colonization and gentrification with poems like Bodies That Know Boxes and Suffer Little Children, which uses ekphrasis to describe Marion Palfi's black and white photo, Detroit, Paradise Valley. Thick Black Lines masterfully blends contemporary social concerns with historical context and poetry to create a chapbook that challenges readers to think critically about our most pressing societal issues."

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Christie A. Cruise, Ph.D., is an author, educator, and social justice advocate. In 2019 she released her first book, It Don't Hurt Now: My Journey of Self-Love & Self-Acceptance. Her poetry, reflections, and self-portrait photography have been published in Gumbo Magazine, Remington Review, Gallery & Studio Arts Journal, Sunspot Literary Journal, Kitchen Table Quarterly, Black Minds Mag, the International Women's Writing Guild (IWWG) anthology Heels Into the Soil: Stories & Poems Resisting the Silence, and the IWWG Network edition Our Stories, Ourselves: Narratives from Black Women in Africa and America. In addition, Dr. Cruise has contributed to blogs for the Black Mental Wellness Corporation, The Healing Collective Global, Spoken Black Girl, and Mahogany by Hallmark.

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