One Strange Country Hayes flees and the adopted strange country she calls home, map an origin story of identity, exile and loss which are starkly conveyed in poems of witness, longing and love.
One Strange Country is Stella Hayes's first poetry collection. She grew up in an agricultural town outside of Kiev, Ukraine and Los Angeles. Hayes earned a creative writing degree at University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in Prelude, The Indianapolis Review and Spillway, among others. She lives in Larchmont, N.Y., with her husband, writer Dade Hayes, and children, Margot and Finley.
