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Halimah Marcus
Halimah Marcus
Halimah Marcus is the editor of Horse Girls (Harper Perennial, 2021), an essay anthology that reclaims and recasts the horse girl stereotype, which was a New York Times “New and Noteworthy” pick. She was the founding Executive Director of Electric Literature, a free online literary magazine and nonprofit that supports emerging writers, where she edited its weekly fiction series, Recommended Reading, for 731 issues, from 2012 – 2026. Andrew Sean Greer selected her short story, “The Party Goers,” from The Southampton Review as a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories 2022. Halimah has an MFA from Brooklyn College, and lives in the Hudson Valley. Her debut novel, Slush, is forthcoming from Pamela Dorman books in 2027.
Photo by Bryan Derballa.
Books
About Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Writers Reclaim the Iconic Bond
Featuring some of the most striking voices in contemporary literature—including Carmen Maria Machado, Pulitzer-prize winner Jane Smiley, T Kira Madden, Maggie Shipstead, and Courtney Maum—Horse Girls reframes the iconic bond between girls and horses with the complexity and nuance it deserves. And it showcases powerful emerging voices like Braudie Blais-Billie, on the connection between her Seminole and Quebecois heritage; Sarah Enlow-Snyder, on growing up as a Black barrel racer in central Texas; and Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, on the colonialist influence on horse culture in Pakistan.
By turns thought-provoking and personal, Horse Girls reclaims its titular stereotype to ask bold questions about autonomy and desire, privilege and ambition, identity and freedom, and the competing forces of domestication and wildness.
Praise
“The essays are tender, critical, and deeply personal… Eminently thoughtful and fascinatingly intimate, this goes a long way toward shattering a stereotype.” - Publisher’s Weekly starred review
Product Details
Horse Girls (Paperback)
Edited by Halimah Marcus
ISBN: 978-0063009257
Published: Harper Perennia, August 2021