This collection of essays rediscovers and reassesses the extraordinary literary legacy of the border writer, Margiad Evans (1909-48) - novelist, poet, short story writer and autobiographer.

1. Kirsti Bohata and Katie Gramich, Introduction
2. Ceridwen Lloyd Morgan, The Archivist's Tale: primary sources for the study of Margiad Evans
3. Diana Wallace, 'Two nations at war within it': marriage as metaphor in Margiad Evans's Country Dance
4. Lucy Thomas, 'Born to a million dismemberments': female hybridity in the border writing of Margiad Evans, Hilda Vaughan and Mary Webb
5. Katie Gramich, Gothic Borderlands: the hauntology of place in the fiction of Margiad Evans
6. Tony Brown, Time, Memory and Identity in the Short Stories of Margiad Evans
7. M. Wynn Thomas, Margiad Evans and Eudora Welty: a confluence of imaginations
8. Kirsti Bohata, The Apparitional Lover: homoerotic and lesbian imagery in the writing of Margiad Evans'
9. Andrew Larner, A 'Herstory' of Epilepsy in a Creative Writer: the case of Margiad Evans
10. Karen Caesar, Warding off the Real: The recreation of self in Autobiography and A Ray of Darkness
11. Clare Morgan, 'The Human Tune': Margiad Evans and the frustrating fifties
12. Sue Asbee, 'Not quite every character is a living person in this story. And not quite the reverse.' Margiad Evans: Memory, fiction and autobiography
13. Moira Dearnley, 'Eternity is now my mood': a view of the later writings of Margiad Evans