Maile Chapman's stories have appeared in A Public Space, Literary Review, the Mississippi Review, and Post Road. She earned her MFA from Syracuse University and is currently a Schaeffer Fellow in Fiction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Exceptional... more than simply an exercise in chilling atmospherics... Chapman takes the women's - often seemingly petty - hopes and fears, and creates a fascinating portrait of group consciousness. A psychologically unnerving, elusive and readable book * Financial Times * A gem; weird, vivid and acrobatic, its intricacies are sophisticated, its stance beguiling and complex. This is a writer of real power and aplomb -- Lucy Ellmann * Guardian * This scary, peculiar story of institutionalised women is immaculately handled and builds to a disturbing but inevitable climax * The Times * A beautiful, edgy and captivating novel -- Victoria Moore * Daily Mail * An eerily brilliant, psychologically sharp take on the Bacchae set in a 1920s Finnish sanatorium -- Adrian Turpin * Herald, Christmas round up *