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I suppose I have never formally introduced myself or my writing; it seems time to remedy that! I am currently in my senior year of undergrad for my BA in English and Creative Writing. For some personal details, my name is Stormy, and I am 21-year-old lesbian who's always been a bit spooky. I love cats, my girlfriend, scary movies, and autumn. I have spent most of my life in the south although my father is in the navy, and we moved a bit when I was younger. I include these details because they tend to creep into my writing interests, my own set of "write what you know" contextualization.
Current Works
I am currently working on my first novel, There Have Always Been Others. There Have Always Been Others is currently concerned with the feelings of suffocation, isolation, and surveillance minorities experience in the contemporary south, primarily targeting how these feelings affect queer people and interracial relationships. My hope is to particularly focus on small hostilities and how they begin the isolation process before revealing acts of true violence or monstrosity. This piece is incredibly atmospheric and relies on traits seen in Southern Gothic, my preferred literary tradition. There is also a hefty through-line of failing family structures which is both necessary to the plot and a centering force for the thematic elements of bigotry and isolation. I want readers to walk away with some handle on the idea that unhealthy family structures become deeply cannibalistic, destroying themselves from the inside out. This story is also set in the year leading up to Hurricane Katrina, hence the importance of the Louisiana setting, as I want to build a sense of impending doom and inescapable horror as well as an understanding of the implications of race during crisis.
I have another six or so novels laid out in the briefest of summaries but do not wish to share about them until I have officially "broken ground" and written at least a first draft.
I am hoping to find fellow up-and-coming writers and immerse myself a bit more in contemporary fiction! As you might have guessed from my preoccupation with the Gothic, I'm a bit stuck in the 18th century. I also want to expand my literary pallet beyond my current niche!
