Elizabeth Earley is the author and host of the popular Substack series, Queering Reality, and the author of two novels: A Map of Everything, a debut finalist for the Lambda Literary Prize; and Like Wings, Your Hands, winner of the Women’s Prose Prize at Red Hen Press, the American Fiction Prize for Best LGBTQ novel, and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction by the Publishing Triangle. In addition to two published works of fiction, she holds an MFA in Fiction from Antioch University-Los Angeles. Her stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The First Line Magazine, Fugue, Hair Trigger, and Glimmer Train, among other publications.
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“What do you think happens after we die?”
This has been Elizabeth Earley’s favorite conversation starter since the motorcycle accident that almost killed her.
In Little Deaths All in a Row: Essays on Sex and Death, Earley delves into memories of past lovers and offers vivid portraits of the Hospice patients she has worked with after recovering from her own near-fatal injuries.
Tracing the many connections — philosophical, scientific, ethical, and spiritual—between sex and death, these lyric essays ponder the afterlife, pain and pleasure, quantum entanglement and love, and the “strange and painful goodness of being alive.”
Little Deaths All in a Row: Essays on Sex and Death is coming soon in 2025!
Anne’s sister, a bright and lovely teenager, sustains a traumatic brain injury after a near-fatal car accident. As a result, Anne and her siblings and parents are thrown into a decades-long struggle for belonging, deliverance and redemption — with surprising results. A Map of Everything intimately explores the fragile nature of family dynamics, revealing what is salvaged, what is lost, and what is gained after a tragedy hits home.
A Map of Everything is available at Amazon.
