A dystopic fiction for unsettling times, The Girling Season weaves a chilling tale about a society of “girlers” and young women they train and trade. In the tradition of Angela Carter’s fables and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, The Girling Season reminds us that the dynamics of gender, power and politics have long histories and far-reaching futures. A 2022 Thornwillow Patrons’ Prize Winner.
Christina Milletti’s novel Choke Box: A Fem-Noir won the Juniper Prize for Fiction (2019) from the University of Massachusetts Press. Her fiction, articles, and reviews have appeared in many journals and anthologies, such as Best New American Voices, Iowa Review, Master’s Review, Denver Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Studies in the Novel, Zeta, Brooklyn Rail, American Letters & Commentary, Experimental Fiction and Buffalo News (among others). She is an Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo and co-curates the Exhibit X Fiction Series, a reading series based at UB for students and the wider WNY community. She is currently completing a new collection of stories, Now You See Her.
