Wish You Were Me

Here is how my publisher, Kevin Sampsell, describes my latest chapbook, "Wish You Were Me is Myriam Gurba's bizarre and uproarious follow-up to her award winning first novella and short story collection, Dahlia Season. There are some weird and unexplored thought patterns happening here. Gurba is a fierce pioneer in the gooey guts of our emotional and sexual zeitgeist." Others have simply called the chapbook forty pages of tastlessness. Here are the jacket blurbs:

"Myriam Gurba just blows me away. Her wit, her perversion, her sharp female smarts, her total fearlessness. I gasp and I gasp as I read her work because I can't believe she said that! It's not shocking, it's a relief. Okay, it's a little bit shocking, too. All the best writing makes you come undone a little and Myriam is not afraid to stick her fingers into your psyche and pull." -- Michelle Tea, author of Valencia

"Wish You Were Me is funny. Achingly funny. Uncomfortably funny, and that's the best kind of funny. It's the kind of humor you'll never forget and it's the kind of book you'll find necessary to subject your friends to." -- Mary Van Note, star of the Mary Van Note Show