Kit Reed has been delighting and terrifying readers for over thirty years with her darkly comic speculative fiction. This collection of short stories, drawn from a lifetime's work, shows Reed at the top of her form. First published in venues ranging from The Missouri Review to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, these twenty stories deal with women's lives and feminist issues from the kitchen sink and pink dishmop era through the warlike years of the women's movement to the uneasy accommodation of the present. Contents: The Wait (1958) The New You (1962) Cynosure (1964) Winter (1969) The Food Farm (1967) In Behalf of the Product (1973) Songs of War (1974) The Weremother (1979) Chicken Soup (1980) Pilots of the Purple Twilight (1981) Frontiers (1982) The Bride of Bigfoot (1984) The Hall of New Faces (1992) Like My Dress (1993) Last Fridays (1998) Unlimited (1998) The Mothers of Shark Island (1998) Mommy Nearest (1998) Whoever (1996)
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Kit Reed was an American author of both speculative fiction and literary fiction, as well as psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig. Her 2013 "best-of" collection, The Story Until Now, A Great Big Book of Stories was a 2013 Shirley Jackson Award nominee. A Guggenheim fellow, she was the first American recipient of an international literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. She's had stories in, among others, The Yale Review, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Omni and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature. Her books Weird Women, Wired Women and Little Sisters of the Apocalypse were finalists for the Tiptree Prize. A member of the board of the Authors League Fund, she served as Resident Writer at Wesleyan University.
