Agency 3: novellas [Paperback]

Three novellas, Teresa Carmody'sToday Must Be Sunday, Kim Chinquee’s I Thought of England, and Allison Pitinii Davis’s Business, unique in style and narrative, deal with longing, loneliness, fear, and the relationships their characters make, and break, on their way to something like peace, if not happiness.Entering and abandoning social contracts and expectations across the country in the pursuit of the somewhat ethereal notion of contentment, these stories highlight the struggles of women across American cultural eras, armed only with their ability to think and to act. These three novellas describe the harrowing, soul-rattling actions and choices made by women in the pursuit of defining their lives.

Teresa Carmody(she/they) is a writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, inter-arts collaborations, and hybrid forms. Their recent collection of autofictions,A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others, is out with Autofocus Books. She is also the author ofThe Reconception of Marie(Spuyten Duyvil 2020),Maison Femme: a fiction(bon air 2015), andRequiem, recently released in a new edition by punctum books (2025). Their writing has appeared inLitHub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Michigan Quarterly Review, Matters of Feminist Practice, WaterStone Review, Lifework: On the Autobiographical Impulse in Contemporary Art, Writing, and Theory,and elsewhere. She currently lives in Omaha and teaches in the Writer’s Workshop and low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at University of Nebraska Omaha. Find Carmody online at teresacarmody.com.

Kim Chinqueegrew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, served in the Air Force as a medical technologist, and worked as a med tech in various civilian clinics and hospitals, most recently during Covid. Her Covid novel,Pipette, was published in 2022 with Ravenna Press, and she is the author ofOh l3�