Dizzy

Hengameh Yagoobifarah, who lives and works in Berlin, is the author of one previous novel, Ministry of Dreams, and the coediter, with Fatma Aydemir, of the highly acclaimed essay collection Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare. They were a member of the editorial team at Missy Magazine between 2014 and 2024, and between 2016 and 2022, their column Habibitus appeared in taz. They are one of the cofounders and editors of Delfi Magazine for New Literature. Martha Turewicz has over a decade of experience translating from German, French, and Polish into English. She now serves as a cataloging language specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Martha Turewicz has over a decade of experience translating from German, French, and Polish into English. She now serves as a cataloguing language specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

"Featuring a multigenerational, multicultural polycule unwittingly locked on a high-rise roof, Dizzy is a delirious riff on the chamber drama. A close cousin of Michelle Tea and Torrey Peters, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah writes queer lives in ways that are surprising, gripping, and true." --Chris Kraus, author of The Four Spent the Day Together "Fun, moving, sexy, and wise, Dizzy is a treatise on desire for our lesbian queer times, where bodies and histories tease each other into lust and discovery. At eighty-six, I wondered if these lives would speak to me--they did, they did. At its heart Dizzy is about queer freedom, to find and lose ourselves. A dignity of self." --Joan Nestle, author of A Restricted Country and editor of Persistent Desire