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Laurie Foos is the author of seven novels and novellas. In her own words, Laurie's books “push the limits of reality, to make things seem absurd and grotesque in order for the reader to see things in a new way.” For example, in Ex Utero a woman loses her uterus in a shopping mall. In The Blue Girl, the lives of three sets of mothers and daughters are overshadowed by the appearance of a blue girl, to whom the mothers feed moon pies in secret.Her work has been categorized as fabulist and magical realism while addressing issues of family, suburban malaise, and the role of women. She's also delving into realistic fiction with Toast, a novella about a child with autism and his sister, insipred by her own family.Laurie teaches in the Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing program and speaks with Georgia Sparling in this interview.Learn more about this podcast and our creative writing program on our episode page.