Box Turtle Books is excited to host Angela Leigh, poet and author of the new poetry collection Tattoos, Tacos, and Time, at our shop on June 27th!

Angela is a North Carolina-born author, a hopeless romantic, and a college professor who finds poetry in just about everything, and the former owner of Adventure Bound Books. “Tattoos, Tacos, and Time” is her first poetry collection. Readers can follow her on IG and TikTok @thattattooedprofessor and learn more about her on her website at angelawrites.studio.

Tattoos, Tacos, and Time is a a poetry collection for lovers and explorers. In it, Angela paints an unfiltered portrait of love, lust, partnership, loss, and transformation. “Tattoos, Tacos, and Time” traces the author's journey home to herself. Sapphic, sensual, sweet, raw, and empowering, this collection celebrates the quiet everyday moments and the ones that change everything.