The Outline

Kit Haggard

Kit Haggard is a fiction writer and teacher at Emerson College; her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review and Prairie Schooner, among other places.

Culture Aug 08

How a queer fabulism came to dominate contemporary women’s writing

Recent books by Carmen Maria Machado, Daisy Johnson, Melissa Broder, and many more are part of a burgeoning trend in writing that uses the fantastic to explore marginalized experiences.