Katrina Denza writes women in conflict: attempting to woo a man via a burner phone, subscribing to a hologram service to speak to a deceased husband, confronting the frustrations of being an artist, reckoning with mistakes made as a mother and much more. Wrestling with connections and disconnections, highs and lows, and the vagaries of modernity, Burner and Other Stories shows us how we live today.

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Joanna Pearson’s newest book, More Happy Love, a story collection, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury in February 2027. She’s also the author of a novel, Bright and Tender Dark, and two previous story collections, Now You Know It All and Every Human Love. You can visit her online at .