Amie Souza Reilly, Author at The Adroit Journal

Amie Souza Reilly

Amie Souza Reilly holds an M.A. in English Literature from Fordham University. She teaches at Norwalk Community College and Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, where she lives with her husband and ten-year-old son. She has published essays in The New Engagement and Entropy, and has flash fiction forthcoming in Toasted Cheese and Pigeonholes. Her blog can be found here: https://theshapeofme.blog.

The Places I Weep: On Heather Christle’s ‘The Crying Book’

Since reading and writing about Anne Boyer’s The Undying, I keep returning to the chapter…

“Fuck white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’s ruinous carcinogenosphere”: Thoughts on Anne Boyer’s The Undying

At the very end of the movie Misery, which I wrote about in my…

I See Mothers Everywhere: On Stephen King’s ‘Misery’ and Being a Woman of a Certain Age

My birthday is at the end of the month. I am turning forty. And…

I Have No Answers, Only Questions: On Eve Ensler’s ‘The Apology’

CW: sexual assault and abuse. At the beginning of this school year, when the weather…

Soft Tissue: Thoughts on Miriam Toews’s ‘Women Talking’

In last month’s post I wrote about gossip—a Twitter thread, a book with a female…