Collider highlights nine memoirs that depart from conventional chronological life-writing, using fragments, poetry, speculative elements, comics and personal artefacts to reflect memory’s complexity. The article argues that these formal experiments are reshaping memoir by allowing writers to address disability, grief, identity and trauma in less linear, more intimate ways.

– ‘The Backwards Hand’ (2024), by Matt Lee: a fragmentary memoir linking disability identity, horror cinema, mental health and cultural ideas of monstrosity.
– ‘A Constellation of Ghosts’ (2021), by Laraine Herring: a prose-and-poetry memoir in which a raven associated with her late father accompanies her cancer journey.
– ‘Year of the Tiger’ (2022), by disability-rights activist Alice Wong: presented as an example of a contemporary memoir form shaped by disability storytelling.
– The wider selection includes works that blend autobiography with speculative fiction, visual storytelling, essays, photographs, recipes, emails and chat screenshots.