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Danie Shokoohi (she/they) is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison MFA program and the Managing Editor at Half Mystic Press. Her poetry and fiction have been published in the New Ohio Review, The American Journal of Poetry, the Mississippi Review, The Cincinnati Review, and others. She was raised a Michigander by her Iranian mother and American father, but in true wanderlust fashion, Danie's lived in five of the twelve Midwestern states. Glass Girls is her first novel.
""Danie's earnest, spellbinding, and emotionally rich debut breathes new life into the classic ghost story. Alice is haunted not just by the specter of a life she's trying to leave behind, but by what that trauma means for herself as an expecting mother. The real horror of Glass Girls is not supernatural--it is the fundamental fear all parents have, that we curse our children by passing our worst parts on to them, that we will become the ghosts that haunt our kids."" --Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books ""Magic is real and Danie Shokoohi has channeled it in this visceral, atmospheric and deeply redemptive novel. Glass Girls brims with love and bravery even in its most wrenching moments, a primer for all of us as we face our own histories. The best art shakes you awake, and this book absolutely will."" --Julia Fine, author of Maddalena in the Dark and The Upstairs House ""Riveting and tender, this electrifying debut is a deeply human ghost story about familial trauma, survivorship, and the things that haunt us. Glass Girls will leave readers delightfully shattered."" --Kathryn Harlan, author of Fruiting Bodies, finalist for the 2023 PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction
