Annie Galvin

In her second novel, Reasons She Goes to the Woods, the Welsh writer Deborah Kay Davies places at the center of her narrative the dark materials that so often shape the mental lives of children: a parent’s mental illness, a preteen’s fierce sexual energy.

Fiction

More Ravishing with Each Blow

Like the High Modernist experiments of Joyce and Woolf, "A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing" attempts to replicate in language the vicissitudes of an individual consciousness.

Annie Galvin

Annie Galvin is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia, where she studies contemporary global fiction, political violence, and visual media. She also writes about music for PopMatters and Slant Magazine. You can find her on Twitter @anniehgalvin.

Articles

More Ravishing with Each Blow

Nail Me Right Inside the Blackness