Escapes (Novel) represented by Jin Auh at The Wiley Agency
Escapes follows two female characters on the brink of enormous life change as symptoms of climate change begin to manifest in their own town.
“My hope is ‘Escapes’ will offer readers portraits of people retaining dignity through struggle and finding agency and purpose despite all that weighs upon them.”
Christina Wood is a prose writer with short stories appearing in The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sewanee Review and other journals. Her story, “The Astronaut,” won the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for short fiction and received a “Distinguished Stories” mention in the 2019 Best American Short Stories anthology. Her nonfiction appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books and McNeese Review. Originally from Southern California, she has an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis and now lives in Athens, Georgia, where she has recently completed a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. She is an editor for Brink Books.
Visit Christina’s website at christinawoodmartinez.com