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Associate Professor of English Lucy Ferriss is the author of Against Gravity: A Novel. This novel tells the story of a young woman longing to escape her dreary Hudson River home whoes life changes when her best friend becomes pregnant and a local storekeeper is accused of child molestation.

In Lucy Ferriss's most recent novel, The Misconceiver, she examines a futuristic America that has renounced abortion rights. Ferriss creates a frightening world set 20 years in the future, uncomfortably close to the political debates of today. Ferriss, a professor of English at Hamilton College, has created a time unsettling to contemplate, where women have lost reproductive rights and “misconceptions” are once again performed secretly in basements and back-alleys.