About

E.V. Thornback didn't set out to write about desire. She wrote about women, sure. She wrote about workers, and queer folks, and people living on the edges of their world.

Desire turned out to be inseparable from the rest.

She writes under a pseudonym because some stories need a room of one's own, and some rooms need a door that closes.

Her 2019 debut novel, Gods and Martyrs, is a sapphic fantasy about revolution, redemption, and ancient gods who demand too much.

Headshots, the first installment of The Muse Series, is a steamy sapphic short story set in a Chicago photographer's studio—a woman arrives for headshots and leaves having found what she didn't know she was looking for. It is available for free on Substack, starting July 7.

She is working on the next installment.