Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, M.S. Coe graduated with an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Her first novel New Veronia was published by Clash Books in 2019. She lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The Formation of Calcium
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The Formation of Calcium
May 2026
The Formation of Calcium
M.S. Coe
Middle-aged Mary Ellen Washie has finally freed herself of her stultified past life in western New York state and moved to Florida. With the husband she’s grown to hate firmly in her rearview mirror, and all ties to her family cut off, she changes her name, bleaches her hair, and befriends Natalie, a seemingly kind, martini-loving woman whom she promptly begins to manipulate. As her machinations propel her beyond the brink of who she used to be, Mary Ellen seeks to unburden herself—but not one to sit down with pen and paper, she narrates the events of her new life into a cassette tape recorder, giving each tape an innocuous name to keep the curious away. A riveting account of one woman’s awful reinvention, M. S. Coe’s second novel is disturbingly funny and completely unexpected. With elements of pulp noir and confessional literature, The Formation of Calcium depicts the bland misery of modern American life as one woman seeks her own ill-fated transformation.
- 978-1-0684395-4-4
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 200 pp.
- Paperback
- May 2026
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Holy Smoke
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Holy Smoke
Dec 2025
Holy Smoke
Fanny Howe
Last night I dreamed I had a name. It was Anon. My parents gave it to me. They sat in the back of my cab. I saw them, alive again! through the rearview mirror, soft and smiling. Where I was taking them, I do not know. Where they came from, a mystery. Why they said, “Your real name is Anon,” I'll never know … But now that I have a name, I know I must write … I’m scared, but feel it is time to be really bad.
Revised with the author for republication for the first time since its 1979 release, Holy Smoke is an account of the frenzy and paranoia of United States politics refracted through one individual’s psyche. Concentrated on a child disappeared and all that phrase carries with it, Howe captures the chaos of reality in her characteristic mix of poetry and prose. Giving genuinely fresh sense to the demand for universal human rights, readers will be astounded to learn that this book was written in the last century.
- 978-1-0684395-1-3
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 104 pp.
- Paperback
- December 2025
About the author
Fanny Howe (1940–2025) was the author of more than fifty books of poetry and prose. She taught literature and writing throughout her life and was professor emerita in literature at the University of California, San Diego. Howe mentored a generation of American poets, activists and scholars working at the intersection of experimental and metaphysical forms of thinking.
Endorsements (3)
Howe prefers the clarity of misunderstanding to the blur of certainty.
Poet of unsettled dreams.
Reading her fiction feels something like facing a patch of wilderness—startling, beautiful, yet terrifyingly mysterious.
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Poetry: Fanny Howe reads from her novel "Holy Smoke", just out from Fiction CollectivePacifica Radio Archives15/07/1979
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| 11 December | Brussels | Fanny Howe tribute, launch of Holy Smoke at Celador |