Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta on Feast While You Can

Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta join Pip Finkemeyer in conversation to chat their lesbian body-horror novel Feast While You Can. 

There is a monster inside of Angelina Sicco. All she wants is to walk her mongrel dog, hold court with her brother in their local dive bar, and bait hot queer women to her sleepy, conservative hometown, Cadenze. The problem is, so does the monster. It wants what Angelina has done, it wants what she’s going to do. It wants to eat her whole life, and every version of every future she might have with it.

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Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta are the co-authors of Feast While You Can and The View Was Exhausting, a Goop and Good Housekeeping book club pick and named ‘a perfect summer read’ by Vogue. Between them, their writing has been published in the New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post, White Review, Slate and more. They are married and live in Berlin.

Pip Finkemeyer is a fiction writer living in Naarm/Melbourne. Her debut Sad Girl Novel was published in 2023. You can find her writing in Harper’s Bazaar, Kill Your Darlings Magazine, Big Issue Magazine, Eleven Stories: The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, Mojo Best of Fiction Anthology, and more. She has a Masters in Publishing and Editing from RMIT. She’s currently working on her second novel.

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