Speculative Biography Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations

"A really useful essay collection in which critic practitioners explore speculative biography in inventive and subtle ways, adding valuable terms to theory and critical debate. Drawing on challenges across a wide range of projects, contributors make their encounters with narrative difficulties into productive conversations that will inspire and interest life writing scholars."

- Clare Brant, Centre for Life-Writing Research, King's College London

"At a time when life narratives declare themselves biofiction, autofiction, creative non-fiction, or simply "based on a true story," Speculative Biography: Experiments, Opportunities, and Provocations applies critical and theoretical rigor to life representation as a product and a practice. Its contributors describe and assess challenges encountered and answered in the process of assembling and imagining a "life world," as archive, supposition, and method come together in narratives that acknowledge the nuances of represented truth"

- Craig Howes, Director, Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai i at Manoa