CARNIVORES & OTHER LOVERS, poetry by ADDISON, FLORES, GOYAN, KING & WONG

Publication Date: July 15, 2026

Paperback, 56 pages 

ISBN: 978-1-966677-49-9

Written by a collective of five female poets, Carnivores & Other Lovers explores poetry written not as an anthology but collectively. Each poem shares elements, thoughts, and language from each of the five poets. This volume melds all voices into one, giving the reader a blend of five psyches into one voice.

Praise for Carnivores & Other Lovers

Enter these pages with delight and dread! For you risk being swallowed whole, chewed up and digested by the creative juices of five brilliantly different spirits, working together. Five poetic artists – or is it artistic poets? –have woven their unique visions and words to create a sixth entity, a verbal quilt made of ideas, hopes, dreams, desires, sorrows, pain and love.  They are joyous as well as thoughtful and provocative.This is a book to keep by your bedside, to wake up to, to sleep with and perhaps to cry over. A book that offers many shades of fragrance."

—Manjula Padmanabhan, author of dystopian novels and plays (The Island of Lost Girls, Harvest) & winner of The Onassis Prize

Carnivores & Other Lovers made me feel full and hungry at the same time. With a distinctly feminine point of view that veers into domineering and nurturing in equal measure, the poets in this collection offer the reader a chance to consume a spectrum of binaries, to imagine a world where everything is the truth, even the ones that oppose each other. The language of these five poets is introduced via the pulse of earthly organisms, a blood that eventually pools into our strongest, most beloved organ by the final page. Rich with rhythm and sensation, Carnivores is a meal both nourishing and empowering.

—Jasika Nicole, queer artist, writer & actor (Fringe, The Good Doctor, Scandal, Punky Brewster)

In Carnivores and Other Lovers, Elizabeth Eve (E.E. King) conducts the poetic voices of Linda D. Addison, Andrea Goyan, Consuelo G. Flores, and Elizabeth Wong into a sonic orchestra of feminine resistance, desire, and consumption with the passion of a ferocious devouring love. The sonic coherence and primordial truth entwined in each of these poems is unrelenting and unforgettably transcendent.

—Jamal Hodge, 2x Bram Stoker Award & Nebula Award Nominee, Everything Endless, The Dark Between The Twilight 

The lawyers for the criminally poetic have been at it again. And what a carnivorously delectable feast they have created. As before, King provides the prompt, and the ensemble of talent does what they do best. Enhance… With this group of writers and their magnitude of sheer talent, there’s no mystery to me how their combined thoughts result in such a profound connection.

—Cindy O’Quinn, Bram Stoker Award® winning author

This collection of five poets, who may not have started out as poets, proves that poetry is in everyone and should be extracted like gold from our depths. A prompt, a story, a feeling... all this can produce such gems as what’s on these pages. I’m for poetry no matter how it happens. If anything, we need poetry more than ever.  Politics, belief systems, the mass media – they’ve all failed us. But poetry stays true. I love these voices. Keep speaking out in the real “tongues” of spirit. Silence today is criminal.

—Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Borrowed Bones & My Nature is Hunger, former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles

About the Authors

Linda D. Addison, the author of six Bram Stoker Award-winning collections, including Everything Endless, written with Jamal Hodge, and How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, recipient of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award and SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry. Her site: www.LindaAddisonWriter.com

Consuelo G. Flores is multidisciplinary artist, playwright and Culture Bearer who’s known for her altars during the Days of the Dead season. She’s curated exhibitions and produced educational programming in the cultural, literary, media, and visual arts sectors and is thrilled to be a magpie with this talented group of women. www.instagram.com/consuelog.flores/46

Andrea Goyan is an award-winning author. She is a grateful bird among the flock of Magpie Poets behind this collection of poems. Her debut novel The Catalyst is available where books are sold. You can find many of her stories for free on her website Andrea Goyan. Follow Andrea on Bluesky or at Mutations & Manuscripts| Substack.

E.E. King is an award-winning painter, performer, writer, and naturalist - she’ll do anything that won’t pay the bills, especially if it involves animals. Ray Bradbury called her stories, “marvelously inventive, wildly funny and deeply thought-provoking.” Her art has been collected internationally. Her novels include Dirk Quiby's Guide to the Afterlife and Gods and Monsters, recommended for Nebula2026 reading. Check out paintings, writing, musings, and books at: www.elizabetheveking.com and read newstories and see new paintings Daily @elizabetheveking.substack.com

Elizabeth Wong is a Los Angeles-based playwright known for melding comedy and social issues. Her plays include Kimchee & Chitlins, Letters to a Student Revolutionary, and Tam Tran Goes To Washington . She’s also a theatre director, tv sitcom writer, multi-media artist, essayist and professor at Boston Conservatory@Berklee. She’s found in Wikipedia and at www.elizabethwong.net. She’s a proud member of the Dramatist Guild and Writers Guild of America. Follow Elizabeth at @elizabethwong648 or @elizabeth.wong8