Libby Kurz is a poet, writer, nurse, and US Air Force veteran. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the Iowa Review, Ruminate, Ekstasis, Literary Mama, and elsewhere. Her poetry chapbook, The Heart Room, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2019. She teaches creative writing workshops for the Muse Writers Center and lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with her husband, three children, and Swiss mountain dog.
If you really want to shock people, I recommend attending a girls’ night out with your coworkers and announcing that you were still a virgin when you got married. The look on their faces will be more primal than even the best orgasm could yield. It was early December, early evening, and already dark outside […]
