Greyhounds

From the author of The Australian comes an award-winning collection of short stories that fearlessly explore desire, power, obsession, and our secret selves. In Greyhounds, a college student unexpectedly finds empowerment through her submissive role in bondage and sadomasochism, a pious widow seeks vengeance on her hoarding neighbor, two young sisters become locked in a dangerous game that may change their lives forever, and a woman’ s reticence transforms into devotion when she learns of her boyfriend’ s compulsion to kill animals. Impassioned, daring, and steeled with clear-eyed empathy, Smith-Stevens’ stories expose what drives us, what haunts us, and what tears us apart.

Emma Smith-Stevens is the author of The Australian (Dzanc Books). She has been widely published, with work appearing in BOMB Magazine, Catapult, Literary Hub, and the New York Times bestselling, Lambda award-winning anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture (Ed. Roxane Gay, Harper Collins). She holds an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Florida and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Find her online at emmasmithstevens.com