Alice Martin received a BA in Creative Writing from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MA in English from NYU. Previously, she worked in book publishing at Writers House, Algonquin Books, and elsewhere. She is currently an English PhD candidate at Rutgers University, where she researches unpublished accounts of female friendships and teaches American women's writings. Her writing, which has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and received Editor's Choice Awards, has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Appalachian Heritage, Writer's Foundry Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, and elsewhere. When Alice is not teaching or writing fiction, she is a regular contributor at Shelf Awareness.

Westward Women has an air of prophecy enhanced by its close attentiveness to the intimate lives of girls and women. An audacious first novel to set beside Margaret Atwood's provocative first novel The Edible Woman

Alice Martin received a BA in Creative Writing from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MA in English from NYU. Previously, she worked in book publishing at Writers House, Algonquin Books, and elsewhere. She is currently an English PhD candidate at Rutgers University, where she researches unpublished accounts of female friendships and teaches American women's writings. Her writing, which has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and received Editor's Choice Awards, has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Appalachian Heritage, Writer's Foundry Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, and elsewhere. When Alice is not teaching or writing fiction, she is a regular contributor at Shelf Awareness.

Westward Women has an air of prophecy enhanced by its close attentiveness to the intimate lives of girls and women. An audacious first novel to set beside Margaret Atwood's provocative first novel The Edible Woman

Alice Martin received a BA in Creative Writing from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MA in English from NYU. Previously, she worked in book publishing at Writers House, Algonquin Books, and elsewhere. She is currently an English PhD candidate at Rutgers University, where she researches unpublished accounts of female friendships and teaches American women's writings. Her writing, which has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and received Editor's Choice Awards, has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Appalachian Heritage, Writer's Foundry Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, and elsewhere. When Alice is not teaching or writing fiction, she is a regular contributor at Shelf Awareness.

Westward Women has an air of prophecy enhanced by its close attentiveness to the intimate lives of girls and women. An audacious first novel to set beside Margaret Atwood's provocative first novel The Edible Woman