Atlas of the Body

Winner of the 2018 CHAUTAUQUA JANUS PRIZE, celebrating an emerging writer’s single work of short fiction or nonfiction for daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder literary conventions, historical narratives and readers’ imaginations.
Growing up in poverty in the American south, Maya yearns to escape and find something better than anything she’s known. “She is so hungry. It is not food, but everything else, the world … What she needs is not on her street with the one-e...