Cicada Shell: Life in a Queer Body by Eric Cline is one of seven winners of Tenderness Lit's 2017 chapbook contest. It is 5x7 and has 30 pages of poems. It’s printed on envirocopy recycled paper (because we're trying to save the world with poems). The cover is printed on card stock and is hand bound in a saddle stitch with little white string. It was released on August 14th, 2018.

Eric 'Alex' Cline is a gay non-binary poet/nerd/Frankenstein's monster currently living in northern Virginia. They spend most of their time writing, reading comics, or languishing in retail hell. You can find them on Twitter @EricClinePoet.