THE YEAR OF THE MONSTER

A 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize Nominee, THE YEAR OF THE MONSTERexplores American culture as commodity and comorbidity. From black holes and animal extinctions to death row trauma porn and the redacted scripts of Hollywood abuses: these sixteen stories subvert traditional notions of justice, challenge vulnerable characters to survive in transgressive spaces. Mixing traditional prose with screenplay and script-hybrid, and certainly not without hope, THE YEAR OF THE MONSTER encourages close examination of how American media and our complicity in its marriage of violence and culture perpetuate the human and environmental crises.