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Peach Pit - Paperback

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by Molly Llewellyn (Editor), Kristel Buckley (Editor)

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, and thirteen other award-winning and bestselling authors

A middle-aged Black woman exacts revenge on the aggressively average men she meets on dating sites. A girl buries pieces of herself in a hole beneath an apple tree, hoping to escape her mother's life of struggle and servitude. A group of teenage girls compete for the title of "Worst Girl in America." A young woman in Taiwan becomes infatuated with a female scam caller, a fleeting ghost of a love that blossoms from strangeness. And a wealthy woman goes to unconventional, and perhaps not entirely ethical, lengths to find her dream man.

In these sixteen stories, we see women at their most monstrous--as con artists and murderers, cutthroats and scalpers, ruled by ambition and grief and spite. Characters for those tired of being told to play nice. Dressed to the nines in morally gray, the stories in this anthology comprise an envelope full of teeth: each one distinct, unsettling, and sharp enough to rip out a throat.

List of contributors: Alice Ash, Alicia Elliott, Alison Rumfitt, Aliya Whiteley, Amanda Leduc, Chana Porter, Chantal V. Johnson, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, Lauren Groff, Maisy Card, Megan Giddings, Sarah Rose Etter, Vanessa Chan, Yah Yah Scholfield

Author Biography

Contributor Bios:

Alice Ash is the
author of the short story collection Paradise
Block, which won The Edge Hill Short Story Readers'
Prize in 2021. She was longlisted for the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize in
2019, and other writing has been featured in Granta,
Refinery29, 3: AM,
Hotel, Extra
Teeth Magazine, the TLS,
and Mslexia, amongst many
others. Interests include motherhood, women's horror writing, domesticity,
magical realism, and metamorphosis. Alice's second book, a novel, will be
published by Serpent's Tail in 2024. Alice teaches at the University of
Westminster and Goldsmiths University, and she is an editor with The Literary
Consultancy. She lives in the UK.

Alicia Elliott is a Mohawk
writer and editor living in Ontario. She has written for The Globe and Mail,
CBC, Hazlitt and many others. She's had numerous essays nominated for National
Magazine Awards, winning Gold in 2017 and an honourable mention in 2020. Her
short fiction was selected for Best American Short Stories 2018 (by Roxane
Gay), Best Canadian Stories 2018, and Journey Prize Stories 30. Alicia was
chosen by Tanya Talaga as the 2018 recipient of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer
Award. Her first book, A Mind Spread Out On The Ground, was a national
bestseller in Canada. It was also nominated for the Hilary Weston Writers'
Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and won the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award.

Alison Rumfitt is a writer
and semi-professional trans woman. Tell Me I'm Worthless, her debut novel, was
published in 2021 by Cipher Press in the UK and in 2023 by Tor Nightfire in the
US. Her second novel, Brainwyrms, is coming October 2023. She lives in the UK.

Aliya Whiteley's novels
and novellas have been shortlisted for multiple awards including the Arthur C
Clarke award and a Shirley Jackson award. Her short fiction has appeared
in Interzone, Beneath
Ceaseless Skies, F&SF, Black
Static, Strange
Horizons, The Dark, McSweeney's
Internet Tendency and The
Guardian, as well as in anthologies such as Unsung
Stories' 2084 and
Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction.
She writes in many genres, she takes a lot of long walks during which she
thinks up strange things, and she bakes a mean choc chip vanilla cookie. She
lives in the UK.

Amanda Leduc is the
author of the novel THE CENTAUR'S WIFE and the non-fiction book DISFIGURED: ON
FAIRY TALES, DISABILITY, AND MAKING SPACE, which was shortlisted for the 2020
Governor General's Award in Nonfiction (Canada) and longlisted for the 2020
Barbellion Prize (UK). She is also the author of an earlier novel, THE MIRACLES
OF ORDINARY MEN. She has cerebral palsy and lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where
she serves as the Communications Coordinator for the Festival of Literary
Diversity (FOLD), Canada's first festival for diverse authors and stories. She
lives in Ontario.

Chana Porter is a
novelist, playwright, teacher, MacDowell fellow, and cofounder of The Octavia
Project, a STEM and writing program for girls and trans and nonbinary youth
that uses speculative fiction to envision greater possibilities for our world.
Her debut novel The Seep was an ABA
Indie Next Pick, Open Letters Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of 2020,
a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and a Times (UK) Best Sci-fi Book of
2021. As a playwright, her work has been produced and developed at New Georges,
Playwrights Horizons, Cherry Lane, Dixon Place, Target Margin, and many more.
Her second novel The Thick and The Lean
is out from Saga/Simon & Schuster spring 2023. Chana is currently adapting
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
into an opera with the composer Ted Hearne. She lives in Los Angeles. Pronouns:
she/they

Chantal V. Johnson
is a lawyer and writer. Her debut novel, Post-Traumatic,
was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. A graduate of
Stanford Law School and a former Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow,
she lives in New York.

Chaya Bhuvaneswar
is a practicing physician, writer and PEN /American Robert W. Bingham Debut
Fiction award finalist for her story collection WHITE
DANCING ELEPHANTS: STORIES, which was also
selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Fiction and Best Short Story Collection
and appeared on "best of" lists for Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue
India, and Entertainment Weekly. Her work has appeared in The
New York Times, Salon, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Electric Literature,
Kenyon Review, Masters Review, The Millions, Joyland, Michigan Quarterly
Review, The Awl, and elsewhere. She has received
fellowships from MacDowell, Community of Writers and Sewanee Writers
Workshop. She lives in Massachusetts.

Deesha Philyaw's debut
short story collection, The Secret Lives of
Church Ladies, won the 2021
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA
Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist
for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. The Secret
Lives of Church Ladies focuses on Black
women, sex, and the Black church, and is being adapted for television by HBO
Max with Tessa Thompson executive producing. Deesha is also a Kimbilio Fiction
Fellow and the 2022-2023 John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the
University of Mississippi. Deesha lives in California.

K-Ming Chang is a
Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book
Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book
Review Editors' Choice books Bestiary
and Gods of Want (One
World/Random House), and two forthcoming books, a novel titled Organ
Meats (One World) and a novella titled
Cecilia (Coffee House Press). She lives in California.

Kristel Buckley
is an editor, publicist and former publisher from the Big Smoke. She is more
than happy to talk your ear off about the unfaithful representation of women in
history, and her passion is a more equitable, inclusive future for all stories
from all voices. She lives in the UK.

Lauren Groff is the
author of six books of fiction, the most recent the novel MATRIX (September
2021). Her work has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies' Choice Award, and
France's Grand Prix de l'Héroïne, was a three time finalist for the National
Book Award for Fiction and twice for the Kirkus Prize, and was shortlisted for
the National Book Critics Circle Prize, the Southern Book Prize, and the Los
Angeles Times Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and was named one of
Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. Her work has been translated into
over thirty languages. She lives in Florida.

Maisy Card is the
author of the novel These Ghosts are Family,
which won an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in Fiction and was a
finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction
First Novel Prize, and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award. Her writing has
appeared in The Paris Review Daily, AGNI, The New
York Times, Guernica, and other
publications. She lives in New Jersey.

Megan Giddings has degrees
from University of Michigan and Indiana University. In 2018, she was a
recipient of a Barbara Deming Memorial fund grant for feminist fiction. Her
novel, Lakewood, was
published by Amistad in 2020. It was one of New York Magazine's 10 best books
of 2020, one of NPR's best books of 2020, a Michigan Notable book for 2021, was
a nominee for two NAACP Image Awards, and a finalist for a 2020 LA Times Book
Prize in The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative
Fiction category. In 2021, she was named one of Indiana University's 20 under
40. Her second novel, The Women Could Fly
(Amistad 2022), was named one of The Washington Post's Best Science Fiction and
Fantasy novels of 2022, one of Vulture's Best Fantasy books of 2022 and
was a New York Times Editors' Choice. She lives
in Minneapolis.

Molly Llewellyn
is a twenty-something queer, disabled book blogger from the UK. She is half of
the editing team for PEACH PIT coming Fall 2023 from Dzanc, which is her first
big editing role. She's a big fan of 'weird women' lit and anything that is the
colour green. She lives in the UK.

Sarah Rose Etter is the author of The
Book of X, winner of a Shirley Jackson Award, and the novel Ripe (Scribner,
July 2023). Her work has appeared in TIME, Bomb, The Cut, Vice, Oxford
American, and more. You can find out more at www.sarahroseetter.com. She
lives in California.

Vanessa Chan was born
and raised in Malaysia. Her short stories have been published in Electric Lit,
Kenyon Review, Ecotone, and more. She was the 2021 Stanley Elkin scholar at the
Sewanee Writers Conference and has also received scholar awards to attend the
Bread Loaf and Tin House writers' conferences. THE STORM WE MADE, her first
novel, will be published with Marysue Rucci Books in 2024. She lives in the U.S.

Yah Yah Scholfield
is a horror artiste, Brooklyn born and Atlanta raised. Their work can be found
in Fiyah Lit magazine, and a handful of other magazines and anthologies. They
published their debut novel "On Sundays, She Picked Flowers' in 2021, and they
have a short story collection coming out in 2023. When Yah Yah is not crafting
horrors, they're working as a professional stay-at-home daughter and wrangler
of their two cats, Sophie and Chihiro. They live in the US.

Number of Pages: 250

Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN

Publication Date: September 12, 2023