Author Description

'CSI: POETRY' of sex, death and pathology, both funny and moving, tackles taboo subjects with cutting-edge science and rich sensuality. We trace the author's personal journey from witnessing the deaths of loved ones, through residencies in pathology and neuroscience research institutes in her quest to understand the science of dying down to brain cell level, encountering strange specimens and conditions. Concurrently, her rediscovery of modern sex and post-divorce dating brings hilarious, earthy life to an unflinching collection which has already won many prizes and distinctions.