Fiction. A host of characters emerge from a madwoman's dreams, populating a world as strange and magnificent as a painting by Hieronymous Bosch. A boy with one wing seeks the secret to flight. A girl with a mirror for a face, adored by all, longs to simply eat. A pregnant girl reflects on the effects of metamorphoses. The stories of BOYSGIRLS are modern myths: tales that exist within our present time but also outside it, in a place as eternal as Shangri-La or Middle Earth. An unforgettable book of Ovidian imagination, BOYSGIRLS testifies that Katie Farris is one of the most talented prose stylists of a new generation. "BOYSGIRLS is one for the classic fairy-tale shelves, joining Borges/Lispector, Calvino/Carter, Andersen/d'Aulnoy with its spectral powers. Katie Farris's spare and lyrical language levitates here—she is a haunting and new revelation"—Kate Bernheimer.

Author City: SAN DIEGO, CA USA

Katie Farris's poetry, fictions, and translations have appeared in various journals, including Verse, SPILLWAY, Indiana Review, Washington Square, Hayden's Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, and others. She holds an MFA from Brown University and currently teaches Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at San Diego State University.

Reviews and Other Links
author site
Martin Woodside @ NewPages
Debrah Lechner @ Hayden's Ferry Reveiw
Andi Dowdy @ AndiLit
Micah McCrary @ Bookslut
Mary Popham @ the Courier-Journal