Our third and final book of 2022 will be Liza Sparks’ short story collection All of the Ghosts in the Room, coming to you in October. This chapbook-length selection of thoughtful, haunting stories of our strange and baffling present will be Trouble Department’s first short story collection, and we couldn’t be happier to be bringing forth Liza and her work to show what the form can do. Fans of books like Friday Black and Her Body and Other Parties will find plenty to enjoy here.
Liza Sparks (she/her) has been published with Winnow Magazine, Ghost City Review, Repave Magazine, Bozalta Collective, Cosmonauts Avenue, and others. Her work is forthcoming with Honey Literary, Split This Rock’s social justice database—The Quarry, and will be included in Nonwhite and Woman Anthology published by Woodhall Press in 2022. Liza was a semifinalist for Button Poetry’s Chapbook contest in 2018. She is a poetry reader for The Chestnut Review. Her writing is largely informed by her intersecting identities as a brown-multiracial-queer-woman.
