Curious Women & Other Creatures

CURIOUS WOMEN & OTHER CREATURES
by Sam Le Butt

Anything is possible in these strange new worlds. In her first short story collection, emerging British author Sam Le Butt takes us on a series of journeys, each messier than the last, to meet her cast of Curious Women and Other Creatures. It is less a prodding-of, and more a splitting-and-dancing-in-the-entrails-of, the idea of ‘woman as monstrous’ — an idea that persistently haunted our screens, our politics, and our minds; an idea that variously brands women’s bodies and minds as wild, slippery, dangerous, and (if we’re lucky) miraculous.

About the author
Sam Le Butt (she/her) is a writer, academic, and educator based in Bristol UK. Her SWW DTP funded PhD research at the University of Bristol explores monsters as environmental storytellers in literature, film, and popular culture. Her doctoral work is on fungal horror, digging into the affects of pain, pleasure, and disgust that the categorical ambivalences of fungi provoke as material beings and in speculative representations. She runs workshops on environmental humanities and storytelling, exploring how creative and embodied methods engage people on issues of bodily-ecological entanglement, waste, and pollution. She makes art from trash she finds on the floor.

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