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Lambda Literary Award finalist Maxine Rae attended Tulane University, where she was taught and singled out for commendation by two-time National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward. Her first novel, COLD GIRLS (2023) has received critical acclaim, earning a Kirkus Stared Review and a spot on their Best Young Adult Books of 2023 list.

While working on Cold Girls, Maxine received feedback and mentorship from National Book Award–finalist Charles Baxter. She later revised and workshopped the manuscript in the selective Novel in a Year program at StoryStudio Chicago, whose artistic director is Pulitzer Prize in Fiction–finalist and Andrew Carnegie Medal–winner Rebecca Makkai. As a young, queer woman from the Chicago area, Maxine has written a debut mol ...more

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A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“I prithee give me leave to curse awhile.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1

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“My whole body is made up of apologies, though. Apologies for getting in the way, for taking too long, for not responding.”
― Maxine Rae, Cold Girls

tags: apology, guilt, loneliness

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