Review of Plett, Casey. A Safe Girl to Love. Topside Press, 2014

Alicia Martínez-Martín is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Studies at the University of the Basque Country (EHU). Her doctoral research examines coping strategies, vulnerability, and epistemic agency in speculative fiction by female authors from North America (the United States and Canada). She is currently collaborating with the Medical Humanities Project at the University of Lisbon, where her research engages with ethics of care and narrative approaches to trauma, violence against women, and social vulnerability. Alongside her scholarly work, she explores creative writing as a critical and artistic practice that examines memory, identity, and embodiment. Her work engages with the intersections between literary research and artistic creation.