The Flat Woman is a novel that explores climate change through the lens of feminism. Compared to Kafka's Metamorphosis and Mona Awad's Bunny, The Flat Woman is a humorous novel that raises questions about personal responsibility in times of mass disaster. You can order a copy of The Flat Woman here.
A recent review of The Flat Woman called it a "screamingly funny" and "gasping-for-air hilarious" work of "feminist magical-realist ecological dystopia." You can read the full rave review here.
The Flat Woman won FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and is forthcoming from University of Alabama Press and Fiction Collective 2 on November 12th 2024.
You can order The Flat Woman on Amazon here and from U of A here.
Vanessa will be making appearances in the Bay Area and New Orleans in the month of her launch. Check out her event page for more information.
Vanessa Saunders is a writer living in New Orleans. She teaches as a Professor of Practice at Loyola University New Orleans. She was the editor-in-chief of Helium Journal from 2013 to 2016.
Her writing has appeared in Seneca Review, Sycamore Review, Los Angeles Review, Nat. Brut, Entropy, PANK, Passages North, Stockholm Review of Literature and other journals. She is at work on a novel of magical realism about whiteness and a book-length prose poem about the ethics of authorship.
