Blackbird by Caitlin Galway

Releases July 2013.

Press kit forthcoming. Pre-Orders [forthcoming] will be made available on the Publications & Store page.

Caitlin Galway is a Toronto-based fiction writer and freelance editor. She is presently an English Literature major at Queen’s University, and an editor at Metazen.ca. Most recently, she was the winner of Riddle Fence’s 2011 Short Fiction Contest and CBC’s 2011 Stranger than Fiction Contest. She was also a finalist for the 2012 Gloria Vanderbilt Prize, Glimmer Train ’s 2010 Fiction Open Contest, and Matrix Magazine 's 2011 Litpop Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals across the globe.

About the Novel:
Blackbird follows the fractured, but resilient, mind of prized student Gwyneth Avery. Briefly homeless upon a return to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, she finds herself placed within a local asylum called Crescent View. Here she leads readers through a disorienting maze of personal trauma and the subconscious. From the harbor town’s harrowing history and the wars of the blonde Martians, to toxic beauty and a yearning for parental love, Gwyneth seeks a balance between her surrounding world and the bizarre, often nightmarish delirium through which she views it.