Shuly Xóchitl Cawood's poetry collection, Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning (Mercer University Press, 2021) won the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Sun, and Brevity.

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About Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning:

"The poems in TROUBLE CAN BE SO BEAUTIFUL AT THE BEGINNING are more than poems. They are old photos in a family album, handwritten recipes in a tin box. In this beautiful collection, Shuly Xóchitl Cawood examines what it means to be human--the places that hold us, the people we lose. Each poem, its 'small, still words a sigh / of ink,' helps us recognize who we are and remember who we used to be. Cawood's words are 'soft as water / stronger than an undertow.' Her poems are time machines, love letters. Maps marked up with stars."
—Melissa Fite Johnson