Stacia Saint Owens

“Auto-Erotica is less a collection of short stories and more a cohesive musing on a single character: Los Angeles. With scalpel prose and crystalline wit, Saint Owens dissects her protagonist, peeling away layer after plastic layer and repeatedly leaving us with an oddly beautiful vertigo as she reveals the abyss beneath.”

---- Nic Kelman, author of girls


"Inspired and charmingly insightful yarns about a city we think we all know so well until a writer like Saint Owens comes along and captures it through a refreshingly sharp, new lens."

---- George Hickenlooper, director and screenwriter, “Factory Girl”; Emmy Award-winner, “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.”


“Animated by characters infected with the clawing hunger of the Hollywood dream machine, Stacia Saint Owens’ Auto-Erotica hums with surprise and revelation. At turns horrifying, poignant, and hilarious, these thirteen keenly observed stories pull off the amazing feat of rendering a world we recognize but have never quite seen before, populated by Saint Owens’ living, breathing, struggling and striving, fully human and fully realized characters.”

---- Samuel Ligon, O. Henry Prize Finalist; author of Drift and Swerve and Safe in Heaven Dead; Editor of Willow Springs magazine


“Stacia Saint Owens is a talented writer with a signature wit and theatrical style.”

---- Sarah Ruhl, Pulitzer Prize Finalist; MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow; author of The Clean House and Eurydice


“Luminously insightful and lyrical. Deliciously brutal in its compulsion to deconstruct. It’s like a razor blade dissecting the female psyche. A beautiful debut.”

---- Joe Russo, director and screenwriter; Emmy Award-winner, “Arrested Development”; “Welcome to Collinwood”; “You, Me and Dupree.”