Photo courtesy of Lucé Tomlin-Brenner
So, if you find yourself asking questions such as, where did Halloween come from? How did it get to America? Why do we do the things we do—bob for apples, pull pranks, go to haunted houses, etc.—to celebrate this strange, shadowy time of year?
Then It’s Always Halloween is just for you.
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BY JOANNA C. VALENTE
Here's some appreciation to a strong, fierce powerful woman who wasn't afraid to be herself:
Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016) and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, a managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM, as well as an instructor at Brooklyn Poets. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, Apogee, Spork, The Feminist Wire, BUST, and elsewhere.
