Caitlin Mullen earned a BA in English and Creative Writing from Colgate University, an MA in English from NYU, and an MFA in fiction from Stony Brook University. While at Stony Brook she taught undergraduate creative writing, served as an editor and contributing writer for The Southampton Review, and worked as a bookseller at WORD in Greenpoint. She grew up in upstate New York and the Jersey Shore and currently lives in Brooklyn. Please See Us is her debut novel.
I'll Follow You (2025) Charlene Wang "Like the friendships we form in the crucible of young womanhood, I'll Follow You is unpredictable, layered, all-consuming. Charlene Wang's debut boasts a fresh, surprising plot, razor-sharp social commentary, and a singular narrative voice laced with equal parts beauty and glittering dark humor. A bracing and completely intoxicating read."
The Counting Game (2025) Sinéad Nolan "The Counting Game is a striking debut steeped in Irish myth and history. Sinead Nolan has written a richly layered psychological thriller that explores the long shadow of trauma and the tangled bonds of family. Atmospheric and surprising."
All the Other Mothers Hate Me (2025) Sarah Harman "All the Other Mothers Hate Me is a twisty mystery, a shrewd send up of London's upper crust, and a hilarious, heartfelt story of a woman pushed to extremes to protect her only son. Like its protagonist Florence Grimes, this debut is truly one of a kind."
One of the Good Guys (2024) Araminta Hall "One of the Good Guys has everything I love in a novel: pitch-perfect storytelling and a twisty plot that plays out in a haunting, atmospheric setting. Araminta Hall has crafted an incisive feminist suspense novel about delusion, deception, and the poisonous nature of toxic masculinity. A daring, breathless read."
The Tip Line (2023) Vanessa Cuti "The Tip Line is an unsettling, bold, and beautifully written debut that explores one woman's quest for Mr. Right against the backdrop of an unthinkable crime, asking us to consider the fraught relationships between trust and denial, love and complicity. Propulsive and whip-smart with an ending that made me gasp. Vanessa Cuti is an incredible talent."
The House is on Fire (2023) Rachel Beanland "THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE is a trenchant examination of the way tragedy shines a light on the best and worst of humankind and how we find agency and courage in the face of darkness and destruction. By turns heartbreaking and heart-pounding, Rachel Beanland's sophomore novel is a mesmerizing portrait of four unforgettable characters and how both chance and choice shape their fates."
My Last Innocent Year (2023) Daisy Alpert Florin "Daisy Florin's debut is a beautifully written, assured exploration of a young woman's conflicting desires for love and sex, for success and recognition, for belonging and independence, and the destabilizing, heady affair that will shape her life for decades to come. Florin has managed to give us a story that is fresh, vital, and surprising, while at the same time will have readers nodding in recognition as Isabel Rosen navigates ambition, lust, grief, and what it means to find your voice in a world that doesn't feel like it belongs to you."
The Wild One (2022) Colleen McKeegan "At once insightful and exhilarating, The Wild One exposes the darker side of summer camp and of the girls bound together and irreparably divided by a long-buried secret. Colleen McKeegan plunges readers into the crucible of young adulthood, with all of its brutal hierarchies and impossible expectations. The result is a haunting look at the way that, for young women, growing up can mean discovering the potential for violence that hums just underneath the surface of every moment - and perhaps most perilously within themselves."
