Jen Fawkes Daughters of Chaos

About the author:

Jen Fawkes is the author of Mannequin and Wife, a 2020 Shirley Jackson Award Nominee, Foreword INDIES gold medalist, and winner of the 2023 Phillip H. McMath Book Award. Her collection Tales the Devil Told Me was a Largehearted Boy Favorite Collection of 2021 and a finalist for the 2022 World Fantasy Award. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Lit Hub, Iowa Review, and more. She lives in Little Rock.

About the book:

Daughters of Chaos is an epic, genre-bending historical novel about a Union spy in Civil War–era Nashville who discovers a secret society of “public women” spanning millennia. Praised by award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier as “a beautiful spinning knife of a story” and inspired by Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, this queer feminist fantasy weaves together “found” history, sapphic romance, and the earth-shaking power of the female.

Author photo by Lacey Duncan.

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