Winner of the 2021 OutWrite Chapbook Competition in Nonfiction. Selected by Chris Gonzalez. A 5”x5” chapbook. Publishing in December 2021.

"A compelling memoir about agency. Soyer writes about living through the early months of the pandemic with honesty and aplomb."

—Chris Gonzalez, author of I'm Not Hungry but I Could Eat

“An intricate exploration of the self that is full of deep, honest reflection. Tender, touching, and bruising, the way this memoir marries the past and the present is extraordinary with Soyer’s heart and fingerprints all over the page.”

—D. Nolan Jefferson, writer and educator

“Hannah Soyer’s body is a wildly perceptive oracle in For When the Shapes Keep Changing. As Hannah experiences the forced intimacy of relationships with her helpers and tumbles through infatuations and loves, her body thrums with awareness and desire. In a series of lyric reminiscences and meditations, Hannah guides us through her ways of knowing—the knowledge she rejects, the knowledge that pursues her, and the truth that is somehow enmeshed beneath her skin. The resulting assemblage is, like Hannah’s own mermaid tattoo, beautiful, striking, indelible.”

—Charles Jensen, author of Cross-Cutting and Nanopedia

“For When the Shapes Keep Changing takes its reader into disability experiences, close up, refracted through trauma narratives that flail and reach, desire and shift.”

— Petra Kuppers, author of Gut Botany

“For When the Shapes Keep Changing took my breath away and gave it back to me, again and again. With prose that gracefully, swiftly cuts right to the center, Hannah Soyer generously invites readers into the experience of reliance and care over a lifetime and during a global pandemic.”

—Rebekah Taussig, author of Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

“...a love song to the complicated beauty of place: the desire to stay and to leave, whether it be Kansas, a relationship, or a bodymind with trauma response escape routes.”

—Stephanie Heit, author of Psych Murders