Cold Comfort is a collection of absurdist meditations on America’s move from rural collectivism to post-pandemic urban isolationism, using poems and personal essays as symbols of transformation and indifference.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dave Pedersen is a Midwestern writer, poet, and illustrator. His work has been published in
Spoon River Poetry Review and the Cold Hard Type series by Loose Dog Press. He is the
owner/operator of Maze Books, an independent new and used bookstore located in Rockford,
Illinois.