{"product_id":"peach-pit-9781950539871","title":"Peach Pit","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAward-winning, bestselling and critically acclaimed writers delivering sharp and searing stories of monstrous and morally gray women, perfect for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Melissa Broder and Roxane Gay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFocus on bloggers, bookstagrammers, and booktubers with a sizeable audience, focusing on the editors' ties to the book review community, such as Booksandlala, Kendra Winchester, Ink and paper blog, and shelfbyshelf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSocial media promotion across all authors' channels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOutreach to publications focused on younger adults, female readers, and readers interested in this kind of boundary-pushing, female-forward fiction, including Bustle, Lit Hub, Elle, Buzzfeed, Time, Book Riot, Oprah Mag, Esquire, Electric Lit, NPR, Vulture, Wired, Refinery29, EW, Popsugar, and more\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlurb outreach to Daisy Johnson, Carmen Maria Machado, Ling Ma, Helen Oyeyemi, Melissa Broder and Roxane Gay-female authors who have built their careers portraying real women, and women who embody the morally grey space this anthology explores\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlog tour in advance of publication, including story excerpts, reviews, author and editor interviews, giveaways, playlists, and more\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreorder campaign with digital rewards and bonus content, including a printable original artwork featuring thematic elements from all sixteen stories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMass galley mailing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eE-ARCs available on Edelweiss\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCo-op budget available\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributor Bios: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Ash\u003c\/b\u003e is the\u003cbr\u003eauthor of the short story collection Paradise\u003cbr\u003eBlock, which won The Edge Hill Short Story Readers'\u003cbr\u003ePrize in 2021. She was longlisted for the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize in\u003cbr\u003e2019, and other writing has been featured in Granta, \u003cbr\u003eRefinery29, 3: AM, \u003cbr\u003eHotel, Extra\u003cbr\u003eTeeth Magazine, the TLS, \u003cbr\u003eand Mslexia, amongst many\u003cbr\u003eothers. Interests include motherhood, women's horror writing, domesticity, \u003cbr\u003emagical realism, and metamorphosis. Alice's second book, a novel, will be\u003cbr\u003epublished by Serpent's Tail in 2024. Alice teaches at the University of\u003cbr\u003eWestminster and Goldsmiths University, and she is an editor with The Literary\u003cbr\u003eConsultancy. She lives in the UK. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlicia Elliott\u003c\/b\u003e is a Mohawk\u003cbr\u003ewriter and editor living in Ontario. She has written for The Globe and Mail, \u003cbr\u003eCBC, Hazlitt and many others. She's had numerous essays nominated for National\u003cbr\u003eMagazine Awards, winning Gold in 2017 and an honourable mention in 2020. Her\u003cbr\u003eshort fiction was selected for Best American Short Stories 2018 (by Roxane\u003cbr\u003eGay), Best Canadian Stories 2018, and Journey Prize Stories 30. Alicia was\u003cbr\u003echosen by Tanya Talaga as the 2018 recipient of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer\u003cbr\u003eAward. Her first book, A Mind Spread Out On The Ground, was a national\u003cbr\u003ebestseller in Canada. It was also nominated for the Hilary Weston Writers'\u003cbr\u003eTrust Prize for Nonfiction, and won the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Rumfitt\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer\u003cbr\u003eand semi-professional trans woman. Tell Me I'm Worthless, her debut novel, was\u003cbr\u003epublished in 2021 by Cipher Press in the UK and in 2023 by Tor Nightfire in the\u003cbr\u003eUS. Her second novel, Brainwyrms, is coming October 2023. She lives in the UK. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAliya Whiteley\u003c\/b\u003e's novels\u003cbr\u003eand novellas have been shortlisted for multiple awards including the Arthur C\u003cbr\u003eClarke award and a Shirley Jackson award. Her short fiction has appeared\u003cbr\u003ein Interzone, Beneath\u003cbr\u003eCeaseless Skies, F\u0026amp;SF, Black\u003cbr\u003eStatic, Strange\u003cbr\u003eHorizons, The Dark, McSweeney's\u003cbr\u003eInternet Tendency and The\u003cbr\u003eGuardian, as well as in anthologies such as Unsung\u003cbr\u003eStories' 2084 and\u003cbr\u003eLonely Planet's Better than Fiction.\u003cbr\u003eShe writes in many genres, she takes a lot of long walks during which she\u003cbr\u003ethinks up strange things, and she bakes a mean choc chip vanilla cookie. She\u003cbr\u003elives in the UK. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmanda Leduc\u003c\/b\u003e is the\u003cbr\u003eauthor of the novel THE CENTAUR'S WIFE and the non-fiction book DISFIGURED: ON\u003cbr\u003eFAIRY TALES, DISABILITY, AND MAKING SPACE, which was shortlisted for the 2020\u003cbr\u003eGovernor General's Award in Nonfiction (Canada) and longlisted for the 2020\u003cbr\u003eBarbellion Prize (UK). She is also the author of an earlier novel, THE MIRACLES\u003cbr\u003eOF ORDINARY MEN. She has cerebral palsy and lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where\u003cbr\u003eshe serves as the Communications Coordinator for the Festival of Literary\u003cbr\u003eDiversity (FOLD), Canada's first festival for diverse authors and stories. She\u003cbr\u003elives in Ontario. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChana Porter\u003c\/b\u003e is a\u003cbr\u003enovelist, playwright, teacher, MacDowell fellow, and cofounder of The Octavia\u003cbr\u003eProject, a STEM and writing program for girls and trans and nonbinary youth\u003cbr\u003ethat uses speculative fiction to envision greater possibilities for our world.\u003cbr\u003eHer debut novel The Seep was an ABA\u003cbr\u003eIndie Next Pick, Open Letters Best Science Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy Book of 2020, \u003cbr\u003ea 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and a Times (UK) Best Sci-fi Book of\u003cbr\u003e2021. As a playwright, her work has been produced and developed at New Georges, \u003cbr\u003ePlaywrights Horizons, Cherry Lane, Dixon Place, Target Margin, and many more.\u003cbr\u003eHer second novel The Thick and The Lean\u003cbr\u003eis out from Saga\/Simon \u0026amp; Schuster spring 2023. Chana is currently adapting\u003cbr\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed\u003cbr\u003einto an opera with the composer Ted Hearne. She lives in Los Angeles. Pronouns: \u003cbr\u003eshe\/they \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChantal V. Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis a lawyer and writer. Her debut novel, Post-Traumatic, \u003cbr\u003ewas long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. A graduate of\u003cbr\u003eStanford Law School and a former Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow, \u003cbr\u003eshe lives in New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChaya Bhuvaneswar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis a practicing physician, writer and PEN \/American Robert W. 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She lives in Massachusetts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeesha Philyaw\u003c\/b\u003e's debut\u003cbr\u003eshort story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Lives of\u003cbr\u003eChurch Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2021\u003cbr\u003ePEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020\/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA\u003cbr\u003eTimes Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist\u003cbr\u003efor the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. \u003ci\u003eThe Secret\u003cbr\u003eLives of Church Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on Black\u003cbr\u003ewomen, sex, and the Black church, and is being adapted for television by HBO\u003cbr\u003eMax with Tessa Thompson executive producing. Deesha is also a Kimbilio Fiction\u003cbr\u003eFellow and the 2022-2023 John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the\u003cbr\u003eUniversity of Mississippi. Deesha lives in California. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eK-Ming Chang\u003c\/b\u003e is a\u003cbr\u003eKundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book\u003cbr\u003eFoundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book\u003cbr\u003eReview Editors' Choice books Bestiary\u003cbr\u003eand Gods of Want (One\u003cbr\u003eWorld\/Random House), and two forthcoming books, a novel titled Organ\u003cbr\u003eMeats (One World) and a novella titled\u003cbr\u003eCecilia (Coffee House Press). She lives in California. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKristel Buckley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis an editor, publicist and former publisher from the Big Smoke. She is more\u003cbr\u003ethan happy to talk your ear off about the unfaithful representation of women in\u003cbr\u003ehistory, and her passion is a more equitable, inclusive future for all stories\u003cbr\u003efrom all voices. She lives in the UK. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Groff\u003c\/b\u003e is the\u003cbr\u003eauthor of six books of fiction, the most recent the novel MATRIX (September\u003cbr\u003e2021). Her work has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies' Choice Award, and\u003cbr\u003eFrance's Grand Prix de l'Héroïne, was a three time finalist for the National\u003cbr\u003eBook Award for Fiction and twice for the Kirkus Prize, and was shortlisted for\u003cbr\u003ethe National Book Critics Circle Prize, the Southern Book Prize, and the Los\u003cbr\u003eAngeles Times Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim\u003cbr\u003eFoundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and was named one of\u003cbr\u003eGranta's Best of Young American Novelists. Her work has been translated into\u003cbr\u003eover thirty languages. She lives in Florida. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaisy Card\u003c\/b\u003e is the\u003cbr\u003eauthor of the novel These Ghosts are Family, \u003cbr\u003ewhich won an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in Fiction and was a\u003cbr\u003efinalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eFirst Novel Prize, and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award. Her writing has\u003cbr\u003eappeared in The Paris Review Daily, AGNI, The New\u003cbr\u003eYork Times, Guernica, and other\u003cbr\u003epublications. She lives in New Jersey. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan Giddings\u003c\/b\u003e has degrees\u003cbr\u003efrom University of Michigan and Indiana University. In 2018, she was a\u003cbr\u003erecipient of a Barbara Deming Memorial fund grant for feminist fiction. Her\u003cbr\u003enovel, Lakewood, was\u003cbr\u003epublished by Amistad in 2020. It was one of New York Magazine's 10 best books\u003cbr\u003eof 2020, one of NPR's best books of 2020, a Michigan Notable book for 2021, was\u003cbr\u003ea nominee for two NAACP Image Awards, and a finalist for a 2020 LA Times Book\u003cbr\u003ePrize in The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative\u003cbr\u003eFiction category. In 2021, she was named one of Indiana University's 20 under\u003cbr\u003e40. Her second novel, The Women Could Fly\u003cbr\u003e(Amistad 2022), was named one of The Washington Post's Best Science Fiction and\u003cbr\u003eFantasy novels of 2022, one of Vulture's Best Fantasy books of 2022 and\u003cbr\u003ewas a New York Times Editors' Choice. She lives\u003cbr\u003ein Minneapolis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMolly Llewellyn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis a twenty-something queer, disabled book blogger from the UK. She is half of\u003cbr\u003ethe editing team for PEACH PIT coming Fall 2023 from Dzanc, which is her first\u003cbr\u003ebig editing role. She's a big fan of 'weird women' lit and anything that is the\u003cbr\u003ecolour green. She lives in the UK. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Rose Etter\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003eBook of X\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of a Shirley Jackson Award, and the novel Ripe (Scribner, \u003cbr\u003eJuly 2023). Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eTIME, Bomb, The Cut, Vice, Oxford\u003cbr\u003eAmerican\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. You can find out more at www.sarahroseetter.com. She\u003cbr\u003elives in California. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eVanessa Chan\u003c\/b\u003e was born\u003cbr\u003eand raised in Malaysia. Her short stories have been published in Electric Lit, \u003cbr\u003eKenyon Review, Ecotone, and more. She was the 2021 Stanley Elkin scholar at the\u003cbr\u003eSewanee Writers Conference and has also received scholar awards to attend the\u003cbr\u003eBread Loaf and Tin House writers' conferences. 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