{"product_id":"agency-3-novellas-9781936097623","title":"Agency 3: Novellas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree novellas, Teresa Carmody's \u003ci\u003eToday Must Be Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e, Kim Chinquee's \u003ci\u003eI Thought of England\u003c\/i\u003e, and Allison Pitinii Davis's \u003ci\u003eBusiness\u003c\/i\u003e, unique in style and narrative, deal with longing, loneliness, fear, and the relationships their characters make, and break, on their way to something like peace, if not happiness.\u003c\/b\u003e Entering and abandoning social contracts and expectations across the country in the pursuit of the somewhat ethereal notion of contentment, these stories highlight the struggles of women across American cultural eras, armed only with their ability to think and to act. These three novellas describe the harrowing, soul-rattling actions and choices made by women in the pursuit of defining their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTeresa Carmody \u003c\/b\u003e(she\/they) is a writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, inter-arts collaborations, and hybrid forms. Their recent collection of autofictions, \u003ci\u003e A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others\u003c\/i\u003e, is out with Autofocus Books. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reconception of Marie \u003c\/i\u003e(Spuyten Duyvil 2020), \u003ci\u003eMaison Femme: a fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (bon air 2015), and\u003ci\u003e Requiem\u003c\/i\u003e, recently released in a new edition by punctum books (2025). Their writing has appeared in\u003ci\u003e LitHub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Michigan Quarterly Review, Matters of Feminist Practice, WaterStone Review, Lifework: On the Autobiographical Impulse in Contemporary Art, Writing, and Theory, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She currently lives in Omaha and teaches in the Writer's Workshop and low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at University of Nebraska Omaha. Find Carmody online at teresacarmody.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim Chinquee \u003c\/b\u003egrew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, served in the Air Force as a medical technologist, and worked as a med tech in various civilian clinics and hospitals, most recently during Covid. Her Covid novel, \u003ci\u003ePipette\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2022 with Ravenna Press, and she is the author of\u003ci\u003e Oh Baby \u003c\/i\u003e(Ravenna Press 2008), \u003ci\u003ePretty\u003c\/i\u003e (White Wine Press 2010), \u003ci\u003eVeer \u003c\/i\u003e(Ravenna Press 2017), \u003ci\u003eShot Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(Ravenna Press 2018), \u003ci\u003eWetsuit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(Ravenna Press 2019), and \u003ci\u003eSnowdog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(Ravenna Press 2021)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as \u003ci\u003ePistol, \u003c\/i\u003e which appears in the anthology \u003ci\u003eTriple No. 3\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(Ravenna Press 2012). She's received three Pushcart Prizes, is senior editor of \u003ci\u003eNew World Writing Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, associate editor of \u003ci\u003eMidwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e, chief editor of\u003ci\u003e ELJ\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eElm Leaves Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), and director of SUNY-Buffalo State University's writing major. She's published widely, in journals and anthologies including \u003ci\u003eNOON, Conjunctions, StoryQuarterly, Fiction, Notre Dame Review, The Nation, Buffalo Noir, Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms, The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women, The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers, The \u0026amp; Now Award: The Best Innovative Writing, New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. She is a competitive triathlete, a USA Triathlon Certified Official, and she lives with her three dogs in Tonawanda, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllison Pitinii Davis\u003c\/b\u003e, PhD, is the author of \u003ci\u003eLine Study of a Motel Clerk\u003c\/i\u003e (Baobab Press, 2017), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Ohioana Book Award, and \u003ci\u003ePoppy Seeds\u003c\/i\u003e (Kent State University Press, 2013) winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize. Her creative writing and scholarship have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry, POETS.org, The Oxford American, The New Republic, Studies in American Jewish Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Stanford University's Wallace Stegner program, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In Fall 2025, she will join Ohio State University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Baobab Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589774344466,"sku":"9781936097623","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5232e329-368f-46db-8c8e-655611c10724.jpg?v=1756806056","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/agency-3-novellas-9781936097623","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}