Caren Gussoff

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Excerpt

Sexing chickens is the easiest job to get in Sartorus, Mississippi. It is also the hardest to keep.

No one knows exactly how it is done. The factories give you two weeks at half wage, sit you with a chicken sexer to watch and figure it out. The attrition rate is tremendous; by age 16, nearly everyone you have ever known, has, at one time or another, trained as a chicken sexer, but you’ve only known one person who kept the job – Jonas, your best friend, Jonas' father – and he is the one that gets you the trial run.

Bio

I’m the author of Homecoming, a novel (2000), and The Wave and Other Stories, a collection (2003), both published by Serpent’s Tail/High Risk Books. My work has also been published in a number of anthologies and magazines.

I received my MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998, and in 2008, I was the Carl Brandon Society’s Octavia E. Butler Scholar at Clarion West.

Publications

An up-to-date list can be found at www.spitkitten.com.

Writing Description

Literary science fantasy with queer and feminist leanings.

Writing Goals

I will finish the last 10k words of my current novella-in-progress, although it won't be pretty.


Website

www.spitkitten.com


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