Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary Award
Winner, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial Award

The Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake. She might as well be a strike-anywhere match in a gasoline town. Her whiskey is mixed with vengeance like her mind is mixed with pills. The last doctor who told her she ain't nothin' is still spitting blood through a split lip.

HANNAH GREEN is a writer and poetry editor at CV2. She was a poetry finalist for the 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She lives in Winnipeg.

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• Winner, League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
• Commended, CBC 2023 Best Canadian Poetry
• Winner, Governor General's Literary Award in the Poetry Category

“Reading [Xanax Cowboy] is an undeniably cinematic experience … There is so much gold that has been dug-up in this wild-west.” — The Fiddlehead

"Green’s debut is timely and witty. It leaves nothing off stage, hides nothing. It is a revelation of living in our anxious times. It is wisely engaging." — Quill & Quire, STARRED REVIEW

"A true original – smart and aggressive and assured." — Shakespearean Rag

"A bingeable book of poetry … Xanax Cowboy displays a raw honesty on important topics. Green balances tone and content, form and media, to deliver a powerhouse of a debut book from title to finishing line." — Freefall

"Hannah Green’s figurative language is so dazzling, her tone so sardonically witty … her debut is indeed a romp." — Toronto Star

"Even as it treats serious topics like romanticizing addiction, Xanax Cowboy is riotously funny, brimming with wit and bravado … Exceptional debut." — ARC Poetry

"Playing on the way suffering has been romanticized in writers and in cowboys, Green skewers this cultural demand for authenticity." — Winnipeg Free Press

"Breaching borders and breaking boundaries … [Xanax Cowboy] subverts expectations with feminist contortions in the twists and turns of phrase, form, and verse." — The Miramichi Reader