Rowan Beaird is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review and The Common, among others. She is the recipient of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award, and she has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and StoryStudio. Her first novel, THE DIVORCÉES, was named a best book by Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, People, The Independent and the Chicago Review of Books. Her second and latest novel is TENDERNESS.

Books by Rowan Beaird

The Divorcées

by Rowan Beaird - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Set in the glamorous, dizzying world of 1950s Reno, where housewives and movie stars rubbed shoulders at gin-soaked casinos, THE DIVORCÉES is a riveting page-turner and a dazzling exploration of female friendship, desire and freedom.