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Winner of the 2023 Digging Press Chapbook Series Award. The Beginners is a collection where poetic intensity meets speculative imagination, demanding we examine not just where we're going, but who we're becoming along the way. With sharp wit and surprising tenderness, Heidi Kasa explores what it means to be human when the lines blur-between self and machine, love and dependence, memory and ghost. Each story is a portal, sometimes surreal and startling, transporting readers to places where the uncanny becomes beautiful and the impossible feels inevitable.

The Digging Press Chapbook Series features pocket-sized books, perfect bound with square spines, as well as, original cover art and layout design. 

Cover, illustrations, layout, and book design by Cynthia Alvarez. 

Paperback. 
Pocketbook Size: 4.25" x 6.75"
ISBN: 978-1-7336038-9-8
Expected Publication Date: November 30, 2025

About the Author

Heidi Kasa also authored the forthcoming poetry collection The Bullet Takes Forever (Mouthfeel Press, 2025) and fiction chapbook Split (Monday Night Press, 2022). She’s the recipient of the 2024 Plaza Prose Poetry Prize and the 2023 Poetry Super Highway Prize. Kasa’s writing has also appeared in Barrelhouse, The Pinch Journal Online, and The Racket, among others. When she’s not working as an editor in Austin, she’s creating artist books. Find her at www.heidikasa.com.