Authors

Steve Almond

God Bless America: Stories
ISBN 978-0-9845922-3-4 • $17.95 • 224 pages • 5.5 x 8.5, French flaps
October 25, 2011

Steve Almond is the author of the story collections God Bless America, named an outstanding book by The Story Prize, The Evil B.B. Chow, and My Life in Heavy Metal; the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott); and the nonfiction books Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, (Not That You Asked), and Candyfreak. His stories have appeared in Playboy, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, and Ecotone, among other magazines, and have been reprinted in Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize.

Edith Pearlman

Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
ISBN 978-0-9823382-9-2 • $18.95 • 392 pages • 5.5 x 8.5, French flaps
January 11, 2011

Edith Pearlman is the recipient of the 2011 PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of short fiction and the 2011 Wallant Award for fiction considered to have significance for the American Jew. She has published more than 250 works of fiction and nonfiction in national magazines, literary journals, and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the South, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. She is the author of four story collections: Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories, a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Story Prize; Vaquita, winner of the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature; Love Among the Greats, winner of the Spokane Fiction Award; and How to Fall, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

John Rybicki
When All the World Is Old: Poems
ISBN 978-0-9845922-6-5 • $16.95 • 120 pages • 5.75 x 9, French flaps
April 10, 2012

John Rybicki was born and raised in Detroit. He is the author of two previous poetry collections, We Bed Down into Water and Traveling at High Speeds. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Ecotone, and Bomb, among many others, and have been reprinted in Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize. He teaches poetry writing through InsideOut Literary Arts Project and Wings of Hope Hospice to children who have been through a trauma or loss. When he is not teaching, he changes tires, paints houses, and does some carpentry. He lives in Augusta, Michigan with his son, Martell.