Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books in an array of genres, most recently Toxicon and Arachne. She co-founded Action Books, works at Notre Dame, and lives in South Bend.

Reading through Wreckage of Reason II, this convivial selection of women’s prose writing in a spectrum of non-realist forms, I found myself thinking of Guillermo del Toro’s dark, femme parable, Pan’s Labyrinth (2006).