Red Emma’s

Both intimate and intricately structured Tramaine Suubi’s remarkable work is inspired by the moon—its phases’ effects on water, the Earth, and our bodies. _Phases _relishes in the beauty of change, even that caused by heartbreak. Suubi’s refreshing, vulnerable verse begs to be underlined, memorized, and shared; each of her poems operate as love letters to the cyclical healing that occurs in nature, in our bodies, and in the bodies that have come before us.

Tramaine Suubi is a multilingual writer from Kampala, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her forthcoming debut is a full-length poetry collection titled phases, _which will be published in January 2025. Her forthcoming second book is also a full-length poetry collection titled _stages, _which will be published in January 2026. _Both books will be published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins.