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How can you escape the Past when it holds the steering wheel? Izzy is born into extreme privilege but she's not the expected beautiful child. She's a mess. A mishmash. More like a collage than a normal human. Different kinds of hair, skin tones, eye colors, and body types. Seems like her DNA didn't get mixed. At eighteen, Izzy implements her plan to save her ten-year-old brother from his predestined life as a rich white jerk-by kidnapping him. Absconding with the boy on this crazy road-trip mission, she doesn't count on the interference of a badass motorcycle racing chick, a suffragette, a 1940s Fr�ulein, a gay southern gentleman, a gold-rush prostitute, a pregnant Scottish immigrant, and a WWII German soldier-each with their own agenda. Traumas of sexual assault, starvation, disasters, and violence are seared into Izzy's genes, and with the ancestors out for revenge, her life is in jeopardy. Or is she completely nuts? ALL MY ANCESTORS HAD SEX is a surreal journey of self-discovery and healing told with compassion, humor, and humanity.

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Susan Emshwiller is a produced screenwriter (including co-writer of the film Pollock), a filmmaker, a published playwright, novelist, teacher, artist, and short story writer. Her novel Thar She Blows debuted in 2023. Other writing can be found in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, Independent Ink Magazine, Black Heart Magazine, Gone Lawn, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, and Anchala Studios Flash Fiction. Ms. Emshwiller was a set decorator for many years in Hollywood and a featured actress in Robert Altman's The Player. Her feature film, In the Land of Milk and Money, a wild social satire, garnered awards and rave reviews at festivals in the US and internationally. Susan has taught screenwriting at North Carolina State University, OLLI at Duke, the Met Theatre in Los Angeles, and in conferences and festivals around the country. She lives with my husband, dogs, and chickens in Santa Fe NM where she enjoys inventing stories and backyard contraptions.

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