Exile in Guyville

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Explore 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. A former band of middle-aged Riot Grrrls, taking vengeance with a new power.

In the stories of Exile in Guyville, probable futures and alternate realities take aim at unruly women, and show how we refuse to be ruled. With gendered rage, and a speculative surreal style, Exile in Guyville renders the invisible as seen, and the powerless as empowered.

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"Amy Lee Lillard's Exile in Guyville 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."

Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain Hunger

"Lillards collection is explosive and inventive, balancing humor and horror as each story explores the ways in which womens identities are built, broken, and rebuilt. I would happily be exiled with these complicated, stubborn, fierce, indomitable women!"

Gwen E. Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw

Author Bio

Amy Lee Lillard is the author of Exile in Guyville, winner of the 2022 BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize; The Past is a Grotesque Animal, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press; and Dig Me Out, from Atelier26 Books. Her fiction and nonfiction appears in Vox, LitHub, Barrelhouse, Foglifter, Epiphany, Off Assignment, Autostraddle, and more. She received the Iowa Author Award in 2023, and was named one of Epiphanys Breakout 8 Writers in 2018. She is also the co-creator and co-host of Broads and Books, the funny and feminist book podcast.