Amanda Marbais
Amanda Marbais
Amanda Marbais’s fiction has appeared in Hobart, SmokeLong Quarterly, Joyland and elsewhere. She’s written reviews and cultural essays for Your Impossible Voice and Paste Magazine. She was featured in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading series and was shortlisted in The New York Times Book Review for her debut short story collection Claiming a Body (Moon City Press 2019). She teaches literature at Loyola University and lives in Chicago.
www.amandamarbais.com
Claiming a Body: Short Stories
The stories in Amanda Marbais’s Claiming a Body read like dispatches from a frontline strewn with infected relationships, metastasizing anxieties, and cultural fatigue. Propelled by sympathetic characters and assertive voices that both capture and convey a uniquely contemporary dread, these virtual confessions reveal life at its most negotiable: a woman overcomes...