Slow Guillotine, winner of the 2026 Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction, is available now from the University of Nebraska Press

Slow Guillotine is a novel about being poor in New York. It is interested in things like manual labor, chronic pain, queer families, the deferral of the revolution, and snakes.

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“painfully hilarious” - Brian Evenson

“language at the very edge” - Jess Arndt

“a tender, slithering threat” - Lily Hoàng

“witty, strange, and poetic” - Timothy Schaffert

“Rivera-Dundas is a force” - SJ Sindu

here is an excerpt of Slow Guillotine 

here is an interview about Slow Guillotine

here is a live reading from Slow Guillotine

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here is information about Teo Rivera-Dundas

here is a contact form