Christa Fairbrother

Hi, I'm Christa Fairbrother... 

I'm a poet who writes embodied poetry - poems about bodies- ours, animals, of water, our collective nature.

Some of those are poems about chronic illness.  Over 133 million Americans, almost half the population, live with a chronic illness. I am one of those millions, and as a poetry lover, I don’t see us represented in poetry at the level the demographic implies. 

Women are disproportionately affected by chronic illness, and women's themes show up frequently in my work.

And animals, of which we are one, but seem unwilling to acknowledge, and all our bodies are suffering for it.