Synopsis "Blue Like Apples"
Blue Like Apples is a narrative collection of poems that tells a story of coming-out, through love for another woman. It is a coming of age in mid-life, after having never really discovered herself before during her long heterosexual marriage. It's the story of a marriage of minds and bodies that began in 2003 on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, in a city in the Norwegian Arctic where they are both foreigners. The story doesn't end...Rasma Haidri is a South Asian/Norwegian-American author of the poetry collection As If Anything Can Happen (Kelsay Books) and three ESL textbooks. She grew up in East Tennessee, spent formative years in Detroit, Miami, and Manhattan, studied in Wisconsin and France, and lived in Hawaii before moving permanently to Norway in 2001. She holds an MFA in creative non-fiction and poetry from the University of British Columbia, an M.Sc. in reading education from the University of Wisconsin, and certification as an Amherst Writers and Artists Association writing instructor. She is currently the regional coordinator for the Norwegian Non-fiction Writers and Translators Association and serves on the fiction editorial board of PRISM International. Her poems and essays have been anthologized in the UK, USA, Canada, Norway, India, Israel, UAE, Pakistan, and Hong Kong, and appeared in literary magazines including Prairie Schooner, River Teeth, Sycamore Review, Fourth Genre, I-70 Review, Muzzle Magazine and Under the Radar. Recognitions for her writing include the Southern Women Writers Association creative non-fiction award, the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Letters & Science poetry award, and a Best of the Net nomination from NewVerseNews. Blue Like Apples placed second in the BrickHouse Books' WIcked Woman Prize.
