Existing somewhere in that chasm between bodily function and souledness, Christine Miscione’s debut collection Auxiliary Skins illumines all that’s perilous, beautiful and raw about being human. From the surgically gutted, to the racially transformed, to a story of self-excision that won Miscione the Exile/Vanderbilt (Carter V. Cooper) Award for short fiction – this collection is chock-full of razor blades masquerading as lemon tarts and everything in between.