Missouri Williams

She is the editor of Another Gaze, a feminist film journal,[1] and her writing has appeared in outlets such as The Nation, Baffler and Granta.

[4] That same year, she penned a personal essay in Granta detailing how a series of seizures in her temporal lobe impacted her writing.

Disability, its impacts and how it relates to characters worlds has been cited as a key aspect of Williams' work.

The novel received the Republic of Consciousness Prize (2023)[8] and her writing drew comparisons to writers such as William Faulkner and classical mythology.

[1] The novel was shortlisted for the First Novelist Award[10] and named a Sunday Times[11] and Vulture Book of the Year.