“What an extraordinary collection! Impossible, I would have thought, for a book to be laugh-out-loud funny, legitimately chilling, and wonderfully erudite – and yet Rage and Other Cages pulls this combination off, seemingly effortlessly, with gorgeous sentences all the way through. LaBrie is a writer to watch, and this is a collection to come back to, again and again, whether you need your hair raised or your ribs tickled. A killer.” — Adam Dalva, Senior Fiction Editor, Guernica and National Book Critics Circle Committee Member

“This book does not tiptoe. It does not dance around anything. It cuts straight to the damn heart. The real heart. … I am in awe of LaBrie’s unflinching honesty, and her gift for telling the world like it is. This is a writer out for blood.” — Ben Purkert, author of The Men Can't Be Saved

“Exemplary storytelling that grapples with important themes. LaBrie’s collection of misanthropic short stories offers meditations on death, dying, grief, and organ donation.”  — Kirkus Reviews

Aimee LaBrie’s short stories have appeared in the Minnesota Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, StoryQuarterly, Cimarron Review, Pleiades, Beloit Fiction Journal, Permafrost Magazine, and others. In 2020, her short story “Rage” won first place in Solstice Literary Magazine’s Annual Literary Contest and her novel in progress won the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award. In 2007, her short story collection, Wonderful Girl, was awarded the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and published in a small print run (University of North Texas Press 2007). Her short fiction has been nominated four times for Pushcart Prizes. In 2012 she won first place in the Zoetrope: All-Story’s Short Fiction Competition. Aimee teaches creative writing at Rutgers and works as the senior program administrator for Writers House.