Lori O'Dea
Lori O’Dea is a fiction writer and literary critic living in Chicago. Her work has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Rain Taxi, Bridge, the Gay & Lesbian Review, and other publications. She reviews contemporary literature with a focus on works in translation and/or by LGBTQ authors and is currently writing a novel.
- Call Me by My New Name
Newly discharged from my stay in the literary ICU that is Garth Greenwell’s novel Small Rain, I still had tubes, monitors, and groggy returns to consciousness on my mind when I encountered the narrator of Valentijn Hoogenkamp’s Antiboy waking up in a hospital bed. Surfacing from the anesthetics, Antiboy, Anti
VOLUME 3: ISSUE 2
WINTER 2025