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Lambda Literary Award finalist Maxine Rae attended Tulane University, where she was taught and singled out for commendation by two-time National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward. Her first novel, COLD GIRLS (2023) has received critical acclaim, earning a Kirkus Stared Review and a spot on their Best Young Adult Books of 2023 list.

While working on Cold Girls, Maxine received feedback and mentorship from National Book Award–finalist Charles Baxter. She later revised and workshopped the manuscript in the selective Novel in a Year program at StoryStudio Chicago, whose artistic director is Pulitzer Prize in Fiction–finalist and Andrew Carnegie Medal–winner Rebecca Makkai. As a young, queer woman from the Chicago area, Maxine has written a debut mol ...more

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Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

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A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

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Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History

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― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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