Slow Guillotine, winner of the 2026 Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction, is available now from the University of Nebraska Press
“Rivera-Dundas is making a formal artistic practice of paying attention to the way ‘small things expand.’ Illuminating the absurdity is the point. Why can’t art be made of this, the drudgery that so often undergirds its inglorious production? The metafictional answer, of course, is that it can be, it has, in the form of a novel you can hold in your hands.” - Full Stop
“Slow Guillotine is a reminder that no matter how small or disempowered our choices might feel, we can still choose to bridge the gaps as we are able. We can still decide to create no matter who sees. We can live intentionally and not sleepwalk through systems that benefit from our disembodied exhaustion. And above all, we can choose each other.” - The Maine Review
“Slow Guillotine is sharply observant as it eviscerates the movie myth of New York and replaces it with something less romantic but much more real, current, and painfully hilarious.” - Brian Evenson
“Slow Guillotine’s subversive, heat-seeking pulse is defiantly pro-ennui, embracing projectile vomit and the thing we want most besides love, that is—language at the very edge, and the shedding of our perpetually too-snug skins.” - Jess Arndt