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Book-of-the-Week Winners: Monstress

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Last week we featured Lysley Tenorio’s debut collection Monstress, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Joshua Duke (@joshmduke) Meaghan Mulholland (@Meagho) Kathryn McGowan (@comestibles) Congrats! To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us! Thanks to all of you who are fans. We appreciate your support. Let us know your favorite new books out there!


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Book of the Week: Monstress, by Lysley Tenorio

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

This week’s feature is Lysley Tenorio‘s debut collection, Monstress (Ecco). His short fiction has appeared in such places as The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. He lives in San Francisco, where he is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. In our upcoming interview with Tenorio, the author speaks with Quan Barry about identity politics: While Monstress is full of Filipino and Filipino-American characters, I see them first as individuals caught up in weird, sometimes ridiculous, and always (I hope) emotionally complex circumstances that have nothing to do […]



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