Monroy, Liza
Entry updated 29 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1979- ) US author active from before 2010, known mostly for memoirs like The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took to Keep my Best Friend in America and What it Taught Us About Love (2014). Her second novel, The Distractions (2025), set in a Dystopian Near-Future manipulation-through-surveillance society; the protagonist of the tale is an AI coder whose central project, an AI capable of love, overloads and becomes superhumanly obsessive in a manner reminiscent of the behaviour of the AI Monster child in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) directed by Stephen Spielberg. Her intimacy with this artefact seems unuseful when, in "realspace", she begins to stalk a person she has become obsessed with. Monroy's use of heightened neologism-packed language (see Linguistics) is reader-friendly. [JC]
Liza Monroy
born Seattle, Washington: 12 November 1979
works (selected)
- The Distractions (New York: Simon and Schuster/Regalo Press, 2025) [hb/]
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