Ainslie Hogarth has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland and has published two YA horror novels, in the U.S. with Flux Books and France in with Editions Milan. The Lonely is about a girl who is crushed by a rock and bleeds to death all day long, and The Boy Meets Girl Massacre (Annotated) is about a girl who may or may not have murdered all of her friends with a pick-axe. Her short fiction has been published in Hazlitt, Black Static, and elsewhere. She is the author of Motherthing, a New York Times Best Book of the Year, was published in 2022.
A delicious dark comedy * Stylist * Gripping... A gutsy, gory mashup of domestic horror and dark humour * Observer on MOTHERTHING * A gruesome, blackly funny, utterly original feminist horror story * New York Times on MOTHERTHING (NYT Notable Book, 2022) * A buzz-worthy and ferocious horror comedy from one of the genre's most promising voices * Buzzfeed on MOTHERTHING *