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Fat Girl in a Strange Land
2012
First Published
3.61
Average Rating
128
Number of Pages
For every supermodel, there are thousands of women who have heard ?Why don?t you just eat less?? far too often. Except as comic relief or the unattractive single BFF, those women?s stories are never told. Crossed Genres Publications presents Fat Girl in a Strange Land, an anthology of fourteen stories of fat women protagonists traveling distant and undiscovered realms. From Guatemala, where a woman dreams of becoming La Gorda, the first female luchador, before discovering a greater calling in ?La Gorda and the City of Silver?; to the big city in the US, where superhero Flux refuses to don spandex in order to join her new team in ?Nemesis?; to the remote planet Sidquiel in ?Survivor?, where student Wen survives a crash landing, only to face death from the rising sun. Fat Girl in a Strange Land takes its characters ? and its readers ? places they?ve never been. TABLE OF Sabrina Vourvoulias ? ?La Gorda and the City of Silver? Lauren C. Teffeau ? ?The Tradeoff? AJ Fitzwater ? ?Cartography, and the Death of Shoes? Josh Roseman ? ?Survivor? Brian Jungwiwattanaporn ? ?The Right Stuffed? Katharine Elmer ? ?Tangwystl the Unwanted? Bonnie Ferrante ? ?Flesh of My Flesh? Rick Silva ? ?How Do You Want To Die?? Nicole Prestin ? ?Nemesis? Anna Dickinson ? ?Davy? Jennifer Brozek ? ?Sharks & Seals? Barbara Krasnoff ? ?Marilee and the SOB? Anna Caro ? ?Blueprints? Pete ?Patch? Alberti ? ?Lift? Cover art by Lili Ibrahim
Avg Rating
3.61
Number of Ratings
80
5 STARS
19%
4 STARS
40%
3 STARS
28%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
3%
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Authors

Lauren C. Teffeau
Lauren C. Teffeau
Author · 2 books
Lauren C. Teffeau was born and raised on the East Coast, educated in the South, employed in the Midwest, and now lives and dreams in the Southwest. She is a graduate of the Taos Toolbox workshop, a master class in writing science fiction and fantasy. Implanted (August 2018) is her debut with Angry Robot.
Bonnie Ferrante
Bonnie Ferrante
Author · 4 books

Bonnie Ferrante is a hybrid writer (publishing traditionally and self-publishing). She was a grade school teacher for thirty-three years, ten as teacher-librarian. She has received three OAC grants for her writing. She has recently entered the field of self-publishing and is greatly enjoying illustrating her own picture books although this becomes more difficult as her Parkinson's Disease progresses. Bonnie also has a Youtube site. "Welcome parents, teachers, and kids to my safe youtube site. Kids can listen to a book being read or a story being told, learn about words and numbers, and sing along. Adults can watch a book trailer and find new ways to teach your children using inexpensive materials, active learning, and the outdoors."

Josh Roseman
Josh Roseman
Author · 1 books

Hi, I'm Josh, and I write stuff. My short fiction has previously appeared in Asimov's, Escape Pod, and the Crossed Genres anthology Fat Girl in a Strange Land, among others. I have also been reprinted by the Parsec-winning Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine and the Hugo-winning StarShipSofa, and my shorter works have been collected in The Clockwork Russian, released November 2015, and Boss Fight, released 2019. My novel After the Apocalypse was released in 2017. I am a graduate of the Taos Toolbox Writing Workshop and an active member of SFWA. When not writing, I mostly complain about the fact that I'm not writing. I engage in pogonotrophy on a regular basis, and sometimes suffer from sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. I was once cool for about fifteen minutes, back in the 1990s, and still look back on that time with great fondness. I also enjoy board games, cooking, and fantasy football. I should not be confused with trombonist Josh Roseman.

Rick Silva
Rick Silva
Author · 1 books
Rick Silva grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, attended Cornell University and Curry College, and works as a high school science teacher. He is currently teaching oveseas. He worked for three years at a school in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and is now teaching in Shanghai, China, where he lives with his wife and son, and their very well-traveled cat. Rick has had several short stories published in anthologies by Apex Books, Crossed Genres, and Flying Pen Press, among others. He is working on his first novel, and has also collaborated on self-published and small press zines and comics.
A.J. Fitzwater
Author · 3 books

AJ Fitzwater is 1000 tiny dragons flapping furiously inside a meat suit, living between two fault lines in Christchurch, New Zealand. Their short stories have been published in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer Magazine, Giganotosaurus, and other venues and anthologies of repute. Their capybara pirate collection "The Voyages of Cinrak The Dapper" is available from Queen of Swords Press April 2020, and their WW2 Land Girls shapeshifter novella "No Man's Land" is available from Paper Road Press May 2020. Two Sir Julius Vogel Awards hunker on their shelf, and the Clarion Class of 2014 hunkers in their history.

Pete Patch Alberti
Pete Patch Alberti
Author · 1 books

"I'm a writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy." Pete "Patch" Alberti lives in a small house with delightfully antiquated ceiling heights in Massachusetts. He shares this abode with several humans of varying ages and the usual compliment of cats. When not writing fiction, Pete writes computer code. The two are remarkably similar, though he recommends careful compartmentalizing. (There was an incident with a sword of be-spelling and a server which is best left untold.) Pete enjoys playing games, baking cookies, critiquing the politics of fantasy novels, and hiding behind the bed with his cat when guests arrive.

Anna Caro
Anna Caro
Author · 3 books
Anna Caro lives in Wellington, juggling writing, work, and study towards a BA(Hons). She is a co-editor of the short story collection 'A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction'. Her short fiction has previously been published in Antipodean SF, Khimairal Ink, and Full of Crow, and her website and blog can be found at http://www.annacaro.org
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