Author: Amber Baird

  • Seven short reads: January 13, 2025

    Seven short reads: January 13, 2025

    Creative nonfiction by Emily Costa. Fiction from Phebe Jewell, Amber Baird, Francesca Leader, Ruth Brandt, and Andrew Bertaina.

  • The Wizard of Ozempic by Amber Baird

    I don’t want to spoil any of this story. The narrator has an eating disorder and is looking for help with it, and then it gets absolutely wild. The narrator’s voice is so distinct and foreboding: Pizza, every kind: floppy New Yorks and Chicago casseroles and California thin crusts and midwestern squares with cured pork…