Afraid of Waking It: Griffith Review 50

A haunting tale of an impressionable teenage girl who falls under the sway of an older artist, at a time when her own sense of self is fragile and her understanding of the power of desire embryonic.

Madeleine Watts has had fiction and essays published in Believer, Los Angeles Review of Books, Lifted Brow and Junkee, among others. Originally from Sydney, she currently lives in New York where she is completing an MFA in Fiction at Columbia University.