The Marie Alexander Poetry Series is pleased to announce that Sonia Greenfield has been selected as the winner of our most recent open submission reading for Letdown, a hybrid memoir that touches on the emotional dangers inherent to giving birth and the vulnerabilities that comes with that experience. A valentine to her firstborn son, this book encompasses love and guilt and joy and disappointment—all in the same moment—as fertility issues arise and a diagnosis of her son's autism complicate motherhood in unexpected ways. A much-needed chronicle in this day and age, Letdown finds the perfection of family life subjective and ever-changing, showing how, if we’re lucky, the difficult moments are outnumbered by the ones we hold as totems of transcendence.

It will be published in March 2020.