The Girls Worried Terribly investigates the deep-rooted superstition about having one's portrait made and how the soul might leave to take up residence in the "new self," causing the fatal "shadow-sickness."
Dot Devota is the author of The Division of Labor (Rescue Press, 2015), And The Girls Worried Terribly (Noemi Press, 2014), and The Eternal Wall (BookThug, 2013). Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she writes prose about the Midwest and has traveled full-time since 2010. Excerpts from her book, MW: A Field Guide to the Midwest (Pages from a Diary Never Written) are published in PEN America, The Offing, Fanzine, Entropy, Make Magazine, Denver Quarterly, and The Volta. Her poems have been translated into Arabic and French and appear on walls.
