Fourth Dominion Press

condition ahuman: a collection of body horror, trauma and trans joy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MEADOW WYAND

Meadow Wyand is a musician, poet, essayist and designer from Rochester, NY. As a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, she fronts the gothic rock band Fourth Dominion. Their sophomore LP Diana’s Day was released to acclaim in 2024 through Fiadh Productions, with particular praise being given to the album’s lyricism:

“it’s clear that Fourth Dominion are something special, breathing new life into familiar post-punk tropes with a galloping momentum and passionate lyrics contemplating queer growth through suffering” – Distorted Sound

Throughout her debut poetry collection Condition Ahuman, the influence of Plath, Rimbaud and Audre Lorde synthesize with theorists like Patricia MacCormack, Foucault and Lacan to place Wyand in dialogue with contemporary poet-musicians like Emma Ruth Rundle and Ross Farrar.

Meadow’s essay “Were Shakespeare and Kurosawa Marxists?” was published in Johns Hopkins University’s Macksey Journal in 2020. Her presentation “And It’s Pagan Poetry” was delivered at the SAMLA 94 conference in 2022. The landscapes her poems travel are not always comforting, but their reward is profoundly life-affirming.

POEMS