Shelley Marlow is author of the novel Two Augusts In a Row In a Row (Publication Studio, 2015); and the art edition of Two Augusts In a Row In a Row with artwork by Marlow (Publication Studio, Hudson, and London Publication Studio, 2017). Marlow was awarded an Acker Award for avant garde excellence in writing. Marlow has read and exhibited extensively and their works appear in publications such as: LTTR (Lesbians To The Rescue), alLuPiNiT, an environmental magazine, Drunken Boat, Zingmagazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and the Saint Petersburg Review. Marlow wrote the lyrics to the musical, UnKnot Turandot, La Mama Theater, NY. Marlow presented a conceptual piece, International Witch Stories, in the Italian Pavilion with Oreste, for the 48th Venice Biennial.
Quotes about Two Augusts In a Row In a Row:
Marlow “writes with a fluid quality that pulls the reader through... twining the workaday and the trippy together. Marlow makes a strong case for love in the face of all as the truest magic this life has to offer.” -- Heather Seggell, Lambda Literary
"As a genderqueer reader who has never before experienced this kind of raw validation in fiction, I daresay it’s groundbreaking...It’s casual magic. It’s truth.” -- Spencer Shannon, WBUR
"It’s a utopian book, even in the middle of dread climes and dire events, and it’s a book in which “magick” works in oracular turns over old-fashioned realism and psychology. Two Augusts in a Row in a Row is a love letter, between genres as well: it’s a bildungsroman, an anecdotal history of both performance art and recent pathways of gender subversion, it’s travel writing, … commedia dell’arte, epic poetry, postmodernism, etiquette guide, closet drama, reportage. And it has that strangely old-fashioned thing.”
Portrait by Martha Keith
