Michelle Donahue is a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Utah where she is a Steffensen Cannon Fellow. Her book reviews have appeared in The Adroit Journal, The Rumpus, Flyway, and others. She is the current prose editor for Quarterly West.
Content by Michelle Donahue
Reviews,
“Elation and Hollowed-Out Sorrow”: On K.L. Cook’s Marrying Kind
The collection’s novelistic complexity stems primarily from its constant depictions of events, characters, themes, and obsessions from multiple angles. We savor repeated glimpses of characters like Laura, a small-town girl from the Texas Panhandle, or Hartley, a history professor turned dean. We witness these characters’ promising beginnings and violent, unfinished ends: wedding days and honeymoons, heart attacks and domestic violence.
Nonfiction,
Gutter Cat by Michelle Donahue
Somewhere there is a cat, a mother readying the world for the arrival of her babies. The kittens—slick and blind creatures—slip from her body. They blink and blink, little voices crooning high-pitched cries of I’m ready.