Black Arts: Stories

The first story collection from the critically acclaimed author of Lakewood, The Women Could Fly, and Meet Me at the Crossroads, this extraordinary volume showcases Megan Giddings’s remarkable imagination and literary range.

Over the course of three acclaimed novels, Megan Giddings has established herself as one of contemporary fiction’s most visionary voices. Compared to literary icons such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler, her work blends speculative storytelling with sharp insight into the complexities of modern life.

In this collection of thirteen genre-defying stories, Giddings explores tangled family relationships, complicated romances, and encounters that blur the line between the supernatural and the everyday. From disintegrating husbands and seductive ghosts to artists seeking inspiration through otherworldly forces, each story examines longing, identity, and transformation with wit, compassion, and originality.

By turns funny, haunting, and deeply moving, Black Arts is a masterful collection that further cements Megan Giddings’s reputation as one of today’s most inventive and groundbreaking literary talents.