A.A. Balaskovits was born in the Chicagoland area but now resides in Ohio. She is the author of Magic for Unlucky Girls (Santa Fe Writers Project 2017). Her fiction and essays appear in Indiana Review, The Madison Review, The Southeast Review, Gargoyle, Apex Magazine, Shimmer and numerous other magazines and anthologies. She was awarded the New Writers Award from Sequestrum in 2015 and won the grand prize for the 2015 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards series. She is the Editor in Chief for Cartridge Lit.
NPR’S BOOK OF THE DAY
- B.J. Novak on 'The Little Book with No Pictures' and making kids laugh November 3, 2026Writer and The Office star B.J. Novak says that when his friends started having kids, he would connect with their children by reading books aloud. He began to pay attention to what would make kids laugh and eventually “printed and glue-sticked and paper-clipped” his own book that ended up being The Book with No Pictures. […]
- Laleh Khadivi explores mother-daughter relationships in 'Female Life on Planet Earth' November 2, 2026It’s been almost one year since Heti, the main character of Laleh Khadivi’s Female Life on Planet Earth, lost her mother. But when details from her mother’s secret past resurface, Heti must grapple with what it means to know someone, womanhood and how to grieve parts of her mother she never knew existed. In an […]
NY TIMES BOOKS
- Two New Picture Books About Healing Our Polarized World November 3, 2026
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- Eric Dane of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Highlights His Struggle With A.L.S. in Memoir November 3, 2026
