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Cody Roggio's debut book of poetry and flash fiction picks up where his first chapbook left off, around the time when he realizes what the big problem was all along: himself. Also, hard drugs. Also, getting arrested. Also, having friends die constantly. Also, trying never to touch those hard drugs again. Roggio recounts these trials and tribulations from the perspective of someone who has been through them with genuine empathy and with the gravitas of a trusted friend. Sporting a sardonic hindsight and a unique sense of humor (so the thoughts don’t kill him), A Switch Flipped in Me is equal parts funny, sad, cringeworthy, and (hopefully) shows some growth both in himself and his writing. 'God, grant me the serenity...'

“I’m in Marshall’s after I relapse and Chris and I are smelling the unlit candles. Brittany found me, early in the morning, nodding off in front of the French press.  She ran my pockets and found my needle and a bag of heroin I was saving for after I got home from rehab. I told her I could explain. I told her I was waiting for the water to boil and wanted to rest my eyes. Because of my history, she didn’t buy it. We both had to leave for work so a fight would have to wait."…”

—from “One Day”

ISBN-13: 979-8-9987727-4-0

96pgs, 5.5” x 8.5”

Edited by Olivia Zarzycki

Cover design by Josh Dale

Cover artwork by Avery Givens Nardone @averygivensnardone

Preorder; releases on August 28th, 2026. Limited edition of 40 bookplates. Signed copies available

For international orders greater than 2 units: please email us before ordering so we can calculate shipping, thanks!

Cody Roggio's debut book of poetry and flash fiction picks up where his first chapbook left off, around the time when he realizes what the big problem was all along: himself. Also, hard drugs. Also, getting arrested. Also, having friends die constantly. Also, trying never to touch those hard drugs again. Roggio recounts these trials and tribulations from the perspective of someone who has been through them with genuine empathy and with the gravitas of a trusted friend. Sporting a sardonic hindsight and a unique sense of humor (so the thoughts don’t kill him), A Switch Flipped in Me is equal parts funny, sad, cringeworthy, and (hopefully) shows some growth both in himself and his writing. 'God, grant me the serenity...'

“I’m in Marshall’s after I relapse and Chris and I are smelling the unlit candles. Brittany found me, early in the morning, nodding off in front of the French press.  She ran my pockets and found my needle and a bag of heroin I was saving for after I got home from rehab. I told her I could explain. I told her I was waiting for the water to boil and wanted to rest my eyes. Because of my history, she didn’t buy it. We both had to leave for work so a fight would have to wait."…”

—from “One Day”

ISBN-13: 979-8-9987727-4-0

96pgs, 5.5” x 8.5”

Edited by Olivia Zarzycki

Cover design by Josh Dale

Cover artwork by Avery Givens Nardone @averygivensnardone

Preorder; releases on August 28th, 2026. Limited edition of 40 bookplates. Signed copies available

For international orders greater than 2 units: please email us before ordering so we can calculate shipping, thanks!

About the Author

Cody Roggio lives in Philadelphia with his two cats. He works in the field of addiction and recovery and dabbles in the arts.

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Reviews

“Not Great/Thanks for Asking is a steadily compelling and occasionally hilarious collection of short stories. Roggio creates a nice home for the poetics of disarray and has a generous, intuitive way with storytelling. The gritty, casual tone is familiar—it’s like a hometown, it’s like Philly, it’s like looking at Polaroid photos taped up on someone else’s bedroom wall and making up memories to place yourself in those snapshots. One piece asks, “remember when we riffed for hours...” and yeah, I almost can.”

 —Alexandra Naughton, author of American Mary, Sick of Being Inside Myself and publisher of Be About It Press 

  “I first met Cody Roggio when I read some of my stories at a bar in Philly a few years ago. I immediately thought he was trouble, like he was someone’s SoundCloud rapper boyfriend who took too many pills and wrote poems about it. I was mostly right, because the poems in his debut collection, Not Great/Thanks for Asking, have this nice, dopey, youthful ache that I’m drawn to, where someone is having to navigate some shitty relationship or some shitty addiction or some shitty malaise about existence or whatever. That’s my shitty shit. And I do really like Cody and I enjoy these poems and I think you will too, even though I still kind of think he’s trouble, so here’s my blurb: “Cody Roggio is a new, troubled talent full of sad charm.” 

 —Brian Alan Ellis, author of The Errors Tour: Collected Poems (2019-2024) and publisher of House of Vlad

 

 “Roggio’s Not Great/Thanks for Asking is kisses in cemeteries with the person you’ve been longing for; each a small granite monument to meaningful love and even more meaningful loss. Emotionally honest and tenderly rendered, these hybrid reflections are filled with hollow loneliness giving way to moments of hope: filling us with the possibility that maybe things will work out. Maybe we can be happy.”

  —Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, author of Eleven Hundred, Better Bones, and editor of HOOT Review and Meow Meow Pow Pow