A significant challenge of bipolar illness is the difficulty in making coherent decisions; one becomes an unreliable narrator in one’s own life. In this mental health confessional, poems about depression, mania, suicidal ideation, and the challenge of living with these disabilities are tackled with naked honesty and deep humour. In The Suicide Tourist, Wallin supersedes the stigma surrounding mental illness and excavates the themes of anxiety, fear, instability, mortality, and ultimately, liberation. 
Praise for Myna Wallin’s previous work:

“With her brilliantly chosen title, Anatomy of an Injury, Myna Wallin proceeds to examine a series of agonizing loves: love for a mother lost at a young age to cancer, then, love for a lifetime of amours “because love and longing for it, is the only thing/ I’m really good at.”  In her disarming candor, she is a Canadian Anne Sexton, forthright, glamourous, savvy—and innocent.” 
Molly Peacock, The Widow’s Crayon Box 
and A Friend Sails in on a Poem 

“Effervescently centering each poem’s surface is the universal solvent, love, in all its grand, minute, nebulous, recollected and misunderstood permutations. These deeply introspective, poignant, reflective, life-affirming and humorous poems dance “across a trellis/with such bravado, bold, ornate,/ luxurious to the touch/ their feet in the shade, their faces in the sun.”
Michael Fraser, With My Eyes Wide Open

Myna Wallin got her MA in English from the University of Toronto and is the author of A Thousand Profane Pieces and Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar (Tightrope Books, 2006 and 2010 respectively), as well as Anatomy of An Injury (Inanna Publications, 2018). She has a beautiful senior cat named Star, and at last count twenty-seven thriving houseplants.