Kendra Nuttall
Kendra Nuttall is a copywriter by day, poet by night, and all-around word nerd. She is the author of poetry collections, Guinea Pig (Bottlecap Press, 2023), Our Bones Ache Together (FlowerSong Press, 2023), and A Statistical Study of Randomness (Finishing Line Press, 2021). Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and has appeared in Spectrum, Echolocation, Capsule Stories, and more. She earned her BA in English from Utah Valley University (UVU). Kendra was a first-place poetry winner in UVU’s Touchstones journal and a presenter and winner at UVU’s 2019 Showcase Awards.
2020 changed us. From a global pandemic that uprooted our lives and took the lives of countless loved ones, to cries for justice that rang out across the world, 2020 is a year that we cannot forget. It’s a year that we shouldn’t forget. Written almost entirely in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, Our Bones Ache Together is a journey of heartache, home, healing, and hope. Documenting the disappearance of the middle class, growing wealth disparity, and life during seemingly endless unprecedented times, these poems remind us of the pain we carry, but also of the hands we hold to keep moving. Life goes on, even when we don’t believe it can. From the coldest winter, spring blooms.