"Vultures," by Amelia Gray, from her collection Museum of the Weird, published by FC2 in 2010. Read by Madeleine Lambert. In the second part of the program, Amelia is joined by Sarah Rose Etter, author of The Book of X and winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award.

Amelia Gray is the author of five books, most recently Isadora (FSG). Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and VICE. She is a winner of the NYPL Young Lion and of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, and a finalist for a WGA Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. As a screenwriter, she has written for the shows Maniac and Mr. Robot. She lives in Los Angeles.

Sarah Rose Etter is the author of Tongue Party and The Book of X, her first novel, which is the winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award for novel. Her work has appeared in Guernica, BOMB, Gulf Coast, The Cut, VICE, and more. She has been awarded residences at the Jack Kerouac House, the Disquiet International program in Portugal, and the Gullkistan Writing Residency in Iceland.