LaToya Jordan ’09 (Los Angeles, MFA) won the 2023 Shirley Jackson Award for her debut novella To the Woman in the Pink Hat (Aqueduct Press). The Shirley Jackson Awards were established “for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic” and voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics.
According to the publisher, “Jordan’s novella is a gripping and terrifying look at our reproductive future that sends shudders through our reproductive present.”
Jordan’s writing has appeared in Anomaly, Literary Mama, Mom Egg Review, Raising Mothers, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and more. Her flash fiction story Offering was chosen as a spotlight story in Best Small Fictions 2021 (Sonder Press) and named Wigleaf’s Top 50 2021. She is also the author of Thick-Skinned Sugar (Finishing Line Press), a poetry chapbook.
Learn more about Jordan on her website.
