Fiction writer,

2022-23 National Endowment

for the Arts

Fellowship recipient

peyton marshall

BiO

Peyton Marshall is a graduate of Reed College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is a recipient of the Richard Yates Award for Short Fiction. Her first novel, Goodhouse, came out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2014. Goodhouse was a finalist for the International Association of Crime Writers’ 2014 Dashiell Hammett Prize. Marshall’s writing has appeared in Best New American Voices, The New York Times, Tin House, A Public Space, and many other periodicals.

"Magnifcently written."

-The new

York Times

"Marshall’s theocracy is rampant with unethical medical experimentation and questionable genetics-based social engineering, in the manner of Scott Westerfeld’s “Uglies,” Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” and Veronica Roth’s “Divergent.” The degree of violent action rivals “The Hunger Games.”

It’s magnificently written. Marshall evocatively captures James’s confusion as he tries to reconcile his institutionalized worldview with the contradictions and grotesqueries of normal society. When he’s drugged and thrown into a “Lord of the Flies"-style hellhole, Marshall depicts James’s dissociation and flashbacks to an earlier trauma in a powerful, blurring stream of consciousness."