Sympathy for Wild Girls

Stories

Demree McGhee

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Feminist Press at The City University of New York
01 September 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Horror & ghost stories; Short stories; Black & Asian studies

A debut collection of surreal, skin-piercing stories about the boundless longing of queer Black women.

A runaway seeks shelter from violence with a pack of wild coyotes. A young woman falls into a hypocritical crew of white Christian YouTube influencers. A mother witnesses her daughter's prophecy about the end of the world come true. In Sympathy for Wild Girls, young Black women yearn for intimacy and hunt for belonging in a subtly warped version of our world, where social mores loom like shadows and bigotry shape-shifts.

Skirting the chasms that lurk in our common notions of 'girlhood'

and their heightened peril for queer women of colour

Demree McGhee's characters track the prints of their desire and pain to the edges of reality, finding refuge in unlikely places. Fighting self-loathing and societal abuse, they explore the bounds of their feral strength and ugliest truths, howling at the moon to be known.

By: Demree McGhee
Imprint: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781558613386
ISBN 10: 1558613382
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 01 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Demree McGhee earned her BA from the University of California San Diego. Her work has been published in Lunch Ticket, Wax Nine Journal, Prose Online, and more. Sympathy for Wild Girls is her debut short story collection. She is currently an MFA student at San Diego State University. She lives in San Diego, CA.

Reviews for Sympathy for Wild Girls: Stories

""I loved this book! Demree McGhee writes with dazzling intelligence, tipping gracefully between the surreal and the real in a way that's constantly upping its own ante. These stories build to a powerful crescendo, and they left me in a state of awe."" —Jenny Fran Davis, author of Dykette ""McGhee has a unique vision with the chops to bring it to life. . . . A daring debut collection of enigmatic short stories."" —Kirkus Reviews ""McGhee writes in between the real and surreal, mixing dreamlike elements with stark realism, striking a balance that infuses each story with inventive and effective storytelling. A promising debut."" —Booklist ""Demree McGhee’s Sympathy for Wild Girls is an atmospheric short story collection about the restlessness of Black girls and women."" —Foreword Reviews