Micaela Maftei started writing with Laura Tansley while working on her PhD at the University of Glasgow. Her monograph The Fiction of Autobiography is forthcoming with Bloomsbury in June 2013. She now lives and works in Turkey.
Laura Tansley is a recent Creative Writing PhD graduate. Her fiction, nonfiction, and critical writing has been published in a variety of places including Gutter and Short Fiction in Theory and Practice. She currently lives and works in Glasgow, UK.
Summer 2013
How We Wrote It: “The Reach of a Root”
Successful literary collaborations are fascinating and rare. Recently, we published Micaela Maftei and Laura Tansley’s story “The Reach of a Root” on KRO. As part of our ongoing interest in […]
Summer 2013
The Reach of a Root
Clare got caught looking at her cunt. A mirror between her legs, her white knickers rolled down around her knees, in the shower block of the girls’ changing rooms.