Ainslie Hogarth is the author of four novels. Her horror novel Motherthing (2022) became a New York Times and CBC Best Book of the Year.
Ainslie Hogarth was born in Toronto. She has an undergraduate degree in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Windsor and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland.
"I’d written the first sixty pages of The Lonely, submitted it as part of my application to a graduate program in Creative Writing at The University of Auckland, and finished it there for my thesis. I was very lucky to have a cousin who knows an agent, and even more lucky that that agent decided to take me on as a client." Hogarth describes the beginning of her writing career.
In 2014, she published her debut novel, The Lonely, and she worked in young adult for a while but then switched to adult fiction.
Her breakthrough was the novel Motherthing. It revolves around the nightmarish experience of Abby Lamb, who finds herself entangled in a unsettling and distressing relationship with her mother-in-law, Laura.
Her most recent work is a darkly comic story about the value of female labor, Normal Women (2023).
Ainslie Hogarth lives in Canada.
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