When I moved to California, the poet Kevin Killian told me that California would make me obsessed with conceptual, place-based work about memory. We’re drastically different people, from different generations, genders, cultural backgrounds, etc., but I can’t completely discount our inverse regional affinity. I see Enriquez engaging with some of these same concerns, albeit in very different ways. For the past few years, I have been working on a sprawling project about the unreliability of family stories, and the complex relationships among narrative, memory, time, and place.

I was a DC transplant to Southern California for nearly a decade, where I moved from being a poet to being an interdisciplinary, language-based artist. Enriquez is a Southern California transplant who moved from graphic design to art when they came to Washington, DC. I became interested in Enriquez’s work for self-centered reasons. The site-specific installation ruined on a riverbank (2022), Joey Enriquez’s solo exhibition which ran last spring at Hamiltonian Artists, used found bricks, construction detritus, plaster brick casts, various types of earth, and historical real estate development maps to evoke the layered and fragmented histories of construction, labor, and place-making, in the District. But if you do…read on, and welcome to The Mate Games.Joey Enriquez ruined on a riverbank exhibition view (detail). If you don’t like your books spicy, your men broody, built, and more bad than good, this is not the series for you. It contains an obsessive stalker, a foul-mouthed, inked and pierced werewolf, a naughty professor with a fondness for watching, a god of mischief, and plenty of heat. Warning: This book is not for the faint of heart.

Then again, rules are made to be broken.Īnd when every moment spent with them brings me closer to finding my wolf, how can I stay away? I’m playing a dangerous game, and the rules say I can’t be with them.

Now, I’m a pariah, followed by the rumors my rejected mate has spread, hated by my classmates, isolated again. The arrogant wolf shifter who ruined my life after I turned him down seven years ago. This is supposed to be my fresh start, but my past won’t leave me alone.

I was locked away, not to be protected, but because I was born broken. As the heir to America’s most powerful pack, my life up to now has been spent in a gilded cage. Shipped off to Ravenscroft University, a graduate school for the supernatural elite, I have a lot to live up to. I rejected my fated mate and didn’t regret it for a second.

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