Join us for the launch of SQUIRMING, a debut book by Monika Ostrowska published by Coffee House Press. Monika will be in conversation with Jamie Hood.

An intimate collection where the domestic, sexual, and cerebral entangle.

Monika Ostrowska’s provocative, plainspoken debut tracks its speaker’s intensifying sexual fantasies as they become at once more intellectualized and embodied, tracing a desperate need for enlightenment. Squirming is a primal meditation on embracing the erotic, challenging the complexities of womanhood, and bridging the chasm between self-awareness and external perception.

Monika Ostrowska is a writer and founder of Triangle House whose work has appeared in Joyland, New York Times Magazine, Guernica, Peach Mag, Newest York, and other publications. Born in Poland, she now lives in Greenpoint, NY with her son. Squirming is her first book.

Jamie Hood is a critic, memoirist, and poet, and the author of How to Be a Good Girl (Grieveland 2020). Her work has appeared in Bookforum, The Baffler, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, Observer, The Drift, SSENSE, Bookforum, Vogue, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.