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 her work has been nominated for a Pushcart. She has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and StoryStudio, and she currently works at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. THE DIVORCÉES is her debut novel.

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.