Mona Awad's fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, The Walrus, Joyland, and St. Petersburg Review. She is currently pursuing an MFA at Brown University.
Two Serious Ladies is named for the 1943 short novel by Jane Bowles.
“I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”
― Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies