V. E. Schwab was born in California, raised in Tennessee, and currently splits her time between Denver, Colorado and Edinburgh, Scotland. She got her undergraduate degree in book design at Washington University in St. Louis, and her masters in depictions of monstrosity in medieval art at the University of Edinburgh.
Schwab's new novel is Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil.
At the Waterstones blog the author tagged "five modern vampire novels with real bite." One title on the list:
Woman, Eating by Claire KohdaRead about the other novels on the list.
Genre collides with the literary landscape in Kohda’s Woman, Eating, a cerebral and surreal work following Lydia, a young, struggling artist and gallery intern who longs to consume the food from her youth, while only being able to digest blood. What follows is at once eccentric and compelling, an examination of race, misogyny, body image and one not-entirely-human woman’s relationship with her own hunger—what she craves, compared with what she needs.
Woman, Eating is among Brittany K. Allen's ten books for fans of Sinners and Isabelle McConville's eleven greatest recent bloodsucking books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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