Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite

by Samira Ahmed, Dhonielle Clayton, Tessa Gratton

1 pages, Audio CD

Published April 13, 2021

About the author

SAMIRA AHMED was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in Batavia, Illinois, in a house that smelled like fried onions, spices, and potpourri. She currently resides in the Midwest. She’s lived in Vermont, New York City, and Kauai, where she spent a year searching for the perfect mango.

A graduate of the University of Chicago, she taught high school English for seven years, worked to create over 70 small high schools in New York City, and fought to secure billions of additional dollars to fairly fund public schools throughout New York State. She’s appeared in the New York Times, New York Daily News, Fox News, NBC, NY1, NPR, and on BBC Radio. Her creative non-fiction and poetry has appeared in Jaggery Lit, Entropy, the Fem, and Claudius Speaks.

Her writing is represented by Joanna Volpe at New Leaf Literary, Inc.

Reviews

[Rachael · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good short story book. Some stories are really hit or miss (I had to completely skip one because I hated the way it was written). Small, easy to read think pieces about vampires if they were anything but white, cis, straight males. My main complaint is that my favorite story in here ended abruptly after a lot of interesting buildup and world building. I wanted more!!

[Hedi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Worth a listen. Atypical short stories about equally atypical bloodsuckers with fun comments in-between. A surprisingly uniformly enjoyable level of writing between different stories/authors. But, as tends to be the curse of short stories, pretty much all of them end just when things finally get going and this repetitive edging with no resolution got annoying by the end.