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Winner of the 2025 Grayson Books Chapbook Competition, Ledger of Tiny Losses is a collection of poems that speak to the universal human desire for constancy and stability amid the realities of our temporal existence, our lives rooted in time and personal vulnerability. As each of us must navigate a route between love, loss and hope, these poems will resonate deeply with every reader.

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Ledger of Tiny Losses is a brave and beautiful chapbook of loss, hope, and faith. In artfully crafted poems, the author presents us with the fragility of life and the human resilience to carry on. Grief, at times personified, intertwines with a forward motion leading to experience and understanding. ""I'm learning how to find that one strip of sunlight slanting / through gap between shade and window ledge, "" the author declares, ultimately concluding that ""nothing is what it seems, // and what feels like pulling might instead / be pushing, and what feels like falling / is something rising beneath you."" This is a brilliant collection that I want to read over and over and to share with those I love. -Luisa Caycedo-Kimura, author of All Were Limones Each poem is its own self-contained world, fully immersive and rich. Yet, the poems speak to one another in ways that only deepen the meaning of each individual poem. This is a necessary book that investigates the timelessness of love despite time's insistence that all is temporary. -Charlotte Pence, 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow

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Katherine Lo's poetry has appeared in Rattle, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Calyx, Poet Lore, Tahoma Literary Review, Spillway, and other journals. It has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A 29-year veteran of teaching high school English, she is also author of the Kirkus star-reviewed YA novel The Cellar and lives in Southern California.

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