Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!: Stories by Melissa Lozada-Oliva (Hardcover) (PREORDER)

Fiction - Short Stories - Literary - Hispanic & Latino

RELEASE DATE: 9/2/2025 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE AND ARRIVE 1-2 DAYS AFTER THE RELEASE DATE)

From the celebrated author of Dreaming of You comes a spiky and surprising short stories about women and their demons: jealous men, predatory teachers, monsters, fame, inherited trauma, and their own personal BS.

A short story collection from the author of Dreaming of You and Candelaria. These stories explore the pain and uncertainty of girlhood and young adulthood. Stylish, subversive, and suspenseful, Lozada-Oliva uses elements of body horror and fabulism to great effect, investigating themes of class, race, gender and sexuality, and late stage capitalism.

AUTHOR BIO: 

Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the author the chapbook peluda (Button Poetry, 2017), the novel-in-verse Dreaming of You (Astra House, 2021), and the novel Candelaria (Astra House, 2023). Candelaria was named one of the best books of 2023 by VOGUE and USA Today. She co-hosts a podcast called Say More with Olivia Gatwood where they dissect the world through a poetic lens.

In 2024 she was named the Our Word Writer in Residence at Columbia University. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in NPR, VOGUE, REMEZCLA, PAPER, The Guardian, BreakBeat Poets, Kenyon Review, Vulture, Bustle, Glamour magazine, The Huffington Post, Muzzle magazine, The Adroit Journal, and BBC Mundo. She is from Massachusetts and lives in Brooklyn.