Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women (Dzanc Books, 2023)

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, and thirteen other award-winning and bestselling authors

A middle-aged Black woman exacts revenge on the aggressively average men she meets on dating sites. A girl buries pieces of herself in a hole beneath an apple tree, hoping to escape her mother’s life of struggle and servitude. A group of teenage girls compete for the title of "Worst Girl in America.” A young woman in Taiwan becomes infatuated with a female scam caller, a fleeting ghost of a love that blossoms from strangeness. And a wealthy woman goes to unconventional, and perhaps not entirely ethical, lengths to find her dream man.

In these sixteen stories, we see women at their most monstrous—as con artists and murderers, cutthroats and scalpers, ruled by ambition and grief and spite. Characters for those tired of being told to play nice. Dressed to the nines in morally gray, the stories in this anthology comprise an envelope full of teeth: each one distinct, unsettling, and sharp enough to rip out a throat.

List of contributors: Alice Ash, Alicia Elliott, Alison Rumfitt, Aliya Whiteley, Amanda Leduc, Chana Porter, Chantal V. Johnson, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, Lauren Groff, Maisy Card, Megan Giddings, Sarah Rose Etter, Vanessa Chan, Yah Yah Scholfield

Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos (Dzanc Books, 2025)

“Chaotic, sexy, and binge-worthy as hell, Be Gay, Do Crime is an EVENT.”—Ruth Madievsky, author of All Night Pharmacy

A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi

A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers’ homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.

In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories,Be Gay, Do Crimedelivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime–unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

Cassandra Complex (Dzanc Books, 2027)

Following runaway sensation Be Gay Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos, award-winning editors Llewellyn and Buckley return with Cassandra Complex, an anthology of world myths reimagined through a queer and feminist slant, featuring stories by Sophie Mackintosh, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, K-Ming Chang, Porochista Khakpour, and many others.

The Yoruba orisha of storms and transformation risks the wrath of her fellow divinities to stop the wedding of a child bride. A long-suffering mother brings her murdered daughter back to life by shaping her from clay. An OB/GYN nurse in São Paulo prepares for new restrictions on abortions, but as protests erupt across the country, she’s haunted by a ghostly woman in white. In her father’s grand estate, a half-demon girl is torn between love for her sister and the mother who seeps like slow poison in her veins. And on an island paradise, a flock of waitresses revel in their beauty and freedom—until the arrival of a wanderer who’s much more than he seems.

In sixteen fierce and vivid tales, Cassandra Complex delivers twisted myths from Palestine to Tonga, Iran to Colombia, Wales to Zimbabwe, and more—wild stories grown lush in the soil of love, rage, and revenge.