Margot Douaihy Books in Order

This poetry collection draws on intimate moments and remembered experience to explore emotional life. Its poems move between humor, pain, and close observation, finding wider resonance in the details of personal relationships and individual memory.

Poems and illustrations explore abandoned industrial spaces, love, queerness, and the passage of time through the imagery of lace. Prints made from fabric produced at Scranton's former lace factory connect material traces of labor with imaginative reconstruction.

Documentary poems and scratchboard illustrations examine outlaw Belle Starr's life and unsolved murder. Drawing on archival material, the book considers how media transformed a real woman into a criminal legend and where public persona parts from historical identity.

When arson strikes her New Orleans school, tattooed nun Sister Holiday begins investigating despite the official response. Suspicion spreads among students and colleagues, while her determination to protect her sanctuary forces her to confront a troubled personal past.

Sister Holiday and investigator Magnolia Riveaux discover a priest's body while working a routine case. As Easter storms flood New Orleans, the pair searches for his killer, testing Holiday's new professional role and her commitment to religious life.

A student's fatal overdose interrupts Sister Holiday's preparations to take permanent vows. As more students are threatened by fentanyl, she and Magnolia pursue the dealers, bringing the nun's own history of addiction dangerously close to the investigation.