Female Small Business Owner is an infrequent blog written by Grace Byron. Usually she writes about books, films, and art.

Grace Byron is a writer from the Midwest based in Queens. Her writing has appeared in The Cut, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Bookforum, The Nation, The Baffler, Joyland, Screen Slate, Frieze, LARB, The Drift, and other outlets. Find her emotrophywife on social. Her debut novel Herculine is forthcoming from Saga Press. She is represented by Julia Masnik.

Selected Writing:

Fiction

“The God-Shaped Hole,” Substack, 2024.

“Can You Hear Me?” Angel Food Mag, 2024. 

“The Year of Getting Better,” The Seventh Wave, 2024. 

“Shortcuts,” LARB Quarterly, Print Only, 2024. 

“Bastards,” Gulf Coast, 2023. 

“Validity,” Joyland, 2023. 

“Emo Trophy Wife,” Triangle House Review. 2022. 

“Toys,” Peach Mag. 2022. 

Essays

“The Matriarchal Legacy of Cecilia Gentili,” Vogue, 2024. 

“Idle Worship,” Parapraxis, 2024. 

“Love in This Club,” Artforum, 2023. 

“Assigned Womb at Birth,” AnOther, 2023. 

“Repossessed,” The Baffler, 2023.

“Rethinking the Trans Eulogy,” Study Hall, 2023. 

“Why Have There Been No Great Trans Women Critics?” Substack, 2022. 

Criticism 

“Garth Greenwell,” The Guardian, 2024.

“On Sophie’s Posthumous Album,” Vogue, 2024.

“Sally Rooney,” Substack, 2024. 

“UwU It Girls: Honor Levy and Tony Tulathimutte,” Substack, 2024. 

“Catalina Schliebener Muñoz’s Subversive Playhouse,” Frieze, 2024. 

“On Trophy Lives,” Bookforum, 2024. 

Various Drift Mentions, 2024.

“Hagiography of a Narcissist: On Salinger,” LARB, 2024. 

“Marguerite Duras,” Screen Slate, 2024. 

“Kathe Kollwitz’s Phantoms,” Frieze, 2024. 

“Catalina Ouyang’s Corrosive Opacities,” Document Journal, 2024. 

“Maggie Nelson,” TLS, 2024. 

“I Saw the TV Glow,” MUBI Notebook, 2024. 

“The Eternal Recurrence of Gender: On Judith Butler,” The Whitney Review, 2024. 

“The Masochistic Acrobatics of Taylor Swift,” Paste, 2024. 

“Candy Darling,” Document Journal, 2024. 

“Very Special Episodes: On Trans Fiction in the Present Tense,” The Baffler, 2024. 

“Sarah Lucas,” Bookforum, 2024. 

“Puppies Puppies,” Feeld Blog, 2024. 

“On Immediacy,” LARB, 2024. 

“Pippa Garner,” Bookforum, 2023. 

“Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and The Heron,” The Baffler, 2023.

“Pipilotti Rist,” frieze, 2023. 

“Michelle Uckotter,” Hyperallergic, 2023. 

“Hilary Leichter’s Terrace Story,” The Nation, 2023. 

“Lauren Elkin’s Art Monsters,” Lux, 2023. 

“Kate Briggs’ The Long Form,” LARB, 2023. 

“Nikki de Saint Phalle,” Screen Slate, 2023. 

“Strange Way of Life,” Screen Slate, 2023. 

“The Trans Sitcom,” DIRT, 2023. 

“Christine Lai’s Landscapes,” The Believer, 2023. 

“Barbara Hammer,” Screen Slate, 2023. 

“Dog Dreams, Lucy Liyou,” Pitchfork, 2023. 

“Mutt,” Screen Slate, 2023. 

“Annie Ernaux,Cleveland Review of Books, 2023. 

“Katherine Dunn,” The Baffler, 2022. 

It Came From the Closet,” LARB, 2022. 

“Greer Lankton” Xtra, 2022. 

“Cindy Sherman,” Observer, 2022. 

“Imogen Binnie’s Nevada,” Observer, 2022. 

“Hil Malatino’s Side Affects,” Observer, 2022. 

“Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt,” Observer, 2022. 

Manywhere,” AVClub, 2022.

“On the Met’s Surrealism Beyond Borders,” Observer, 2022. 

“Torrey Peters’ Detransition, Baby,” Observer, 2021. 

Memoir 

“The False Gospel of Conversion Therapy,” The Cut, 2023. 

“It’s a Trap,” Nightwater, 2023. 

Profiles & Interviews

Rachel Kushner, Interview Mag, 2024. 

Hunter Schafer, Vogue, 2024.

Charlotte Shane, CULTURED, 2024. 

Catherine Breillat, Screen Slate, 2024. 

Zooey Zephyr, TeenVogue, 2024.

Lucy Sante, Interview Mag, 2024. 

Irene Silt, The Rumpus, 2022. 

Ethel Cain, i-D, 2022. 

Cecilia Gentili, Xtra, 2022.

Sarah Thankam Mathews, Observer, 2022.

Jackie Ess, Observer, 2021. 

Hannah Baer, Observer, 2021. 

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Grace Byron is a writer from Indianapolis based in Brooklyn. She used to make films. Her writing has appeared in The Cut, Vogue, Bookforum, and The Baffler among other outlets. She tweets @emotrophywife.