LITTLE DEATHS ALL IN A ROW: ESSAYS ON SEX AND DEATH

My latest book, Little Deaths All in a Row: Essays on Sex and Death, is coming soon from Jaded Ibis Press. This collection explores the tangled relationship between desire and mortality with raw honesty and deep vulnerability. Featuring evocative illustrations by Nicole Roberts, these essays navigate love, loss, and the body in all its transformations.

About Little Deaths All in a Row

“What do you think happens after we die?” 

This has been Elizabeth Earley’s favorite conversation starter since the motorcycle accident that almost killed her.

In Little Deaths All in a Row: Essays on Sex and Death, Earley delves into memories of past lovers and offers vivid portraits of the Hospice patients she has worked with after recovering from her own near-fatal injuries. 

Tracing the many connections — philosophical, scientific, ethical, and spiritual—between sex and death, these lyric essays ponder the afterlife, pain and pleasure, quantum entanglement and love, and the “strange and painful goodness of being alive.” 

Praise for Little Deaths All in a Row

“Shades of Carmen Machado’s In the Dream House, and I mean that as a galactic compliment . . . What an intriguing, compelling helix . . . Intellectually exciting and driven by a kind of heart-quest. SO THRILLING to see the ‘mono story’ of motherhood and marriage and sex blown to bits from the get-go.” — Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water

“This vulnerable, cerebral, emotional, and powerful work will take you to unexpected, magical, and utterly mysterious places.” — Emily Rapp Black, author of The Still Point of the Turning World