Guihan Larsen - Delighted to share the wonderful news from Spout Press, that Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces, edited by Margaret Aldrich and Michelle Filkins, has been named a finalist for the 2025 Minnesota Book Award in the Anthology category, alongside picks from HarperCollins, Graywolf, and the University of Minnesota Press. Through a prismatic series of essays, Locker Room Talk indexes the myriad shapes of women's behind-closed-doors encounters: from the mammogram suite to the BDSM dungeon to P!nk's backstage dressing rooms. The winners in each category—including General and Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, and YA Literature, among others

Selected Works

Fiction

As the Snow Drifts: A Cozy Winter Anthology

My short story "Sunbeam" is featured in the Winter Anthology.

Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces

In Locker Room Talk, we listen in on the epic and ordinary moments that happen when women are together. Subverting the traditional idea of "locker room talk," this collection illuminates the conversations women share with family, friends, and strangers, whether at the sinks of a nightclub ladies' room, on a bus heading to the Women's March, or in the kitchen of an elder relative. Cumulatively, they reveal the myriad ways women care for themselves, each other, their communities, and our world.

OFIC Magazine, Issue Number 10

A short story about a young woman who encounters the underbelly of 1980s Hollywood.

EcoTheo Review, Winter 2023

An ex-con and a young girl venture to the California Redwoods.

"Unearthed" Querencia Press, Autumn 2024 Anthology

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Delighted to share the wonderful news from Spout Press, that Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces, edited by Margaret Aldrich and Michelle Filkins, has been named a finalist for the 2025 Minnesota Book Award in the Anthology category, alongside picks from HarperCollins, Graywolf, and the University of Minnesota Press. Through a prismatic series of essays, Locker Room Talk indexes the myriad shapes of women's behind-closed-doors encounters: from the mammogram suite to the BDSM dungeon to P!nk's backstage dressing rooms. The winners in each category—including General and Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, and YA Literature, among others—will be announced on April 22, 2025

Anthology Launch, My short story, "Sunbeam" will be included in, As the Snow Drifts: A Cozy Winter Anthology, November 7, 2024