{"title":"Amy Lee Lillard","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Lee Lillard\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eExile in Guyville\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, winner of the 2022 BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Past is a Grotesque Animal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press; and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDig Me Out\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, from Atelier26 Books. Her fiction and nonfiction appears in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eVox, LitHub, Barrelhouse, Foglifter, Epiphany, Off Assignment, Autostraddle,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and more. She received the Iowa Author Award in 2023, and was named one of Epiphany’s Breakout 8 Writers in 2018. She is also the co-creator and co-host of “Broads and Books,” the funny and feminist book podcast.\u003c\/span\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"exile-in-guyville","title":"Exile in Guyville","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eAudiobook now available!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1880554329\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"BOA Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"04 Exile Exile In Guyville\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/04-exile-exile-in-guyville\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e04 Exile Exile In Guyville\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eIn the stories of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eExile in Guyville\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e, probable futures and alternate realities take aim at unruly women, and show how they refuse to be ruled.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e With a speculative and surreal style, Lillard’s prize-winning collection explores a living museum of women from across time; a life app that forces women to comply with beauty standards; a future internment camp with a literal race for survival; and a band of middle-aged Riot Grrrls, taking vengeance with a new power. With humor, rage, and a razor-sharp eye for detail, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExile in Guyville\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e renders the invisible as seen, and the powerless as empowered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eExile in Guyville\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Each of these six enthralling speculative shorts from Lillard (\u003cem\u003eDig Me Out\u003c\/em\u003e) explores female agency to powerful effect. Several offer dark views of the future. Women are imprisoned and subjugated in both 'Blackbird,' set in a gendered internment camp, and in the title story, about living women who are displayed in a museum and the new curator determined to effect change from within. The heroine of 'Typical Girls' is implanted with an oppressive AI companion marketed as a tool to improve women’s lives. 'Corporeal' explores the idea of alternate realities and alternate selves, while the quiet 'Wintersong' delves into the dissolution of a relationship. The final story, 'Things You Say,' sends the collection out on a slightly more hopeful note, showing women reclaiming their agency, inspired by their Riot Grrrl idols. Brief but mighty, this packs a hefty punch.\" \u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003estarred review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Amy Lee Lillard's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eExile in Guyville\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e takes you on a deeply poetic journey of women in exile. Women out of time, women out of place, women out of their minds, and women out of luck leap from this haunting, beautiful, slender short story collection that stays with you long after you close the book. This is a terrific collection of sneakily powerful writing and an unfettered, wild imagination.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Chelsea G. Summers, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e A Certain Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Lillard’s collection is explosive and inventive, balancing humor and horror as each story explores the ways in which women’s identities are built, broken, and rebuilt. I would happily be exiled with these complicated, stubborn, fierce, indomitable women!” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Gwen E. 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