Glimmer Train Stories, #35 - Softcover

Karen Kovacik; Felicia Olivera; Thomas E. Kennedy; Susan Fox; Michael Upchurch; Daniel Wallace; Jiang Qisheng; Siobhan Dowd

9781880966341: Glimmer Train Stories, #35

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880966344 ISBN 13: 9781880966341

Publisher: Glimmer Train Pr Inc, 2000

An anthology of new short fiction by award-winning and emerging authors, this intimate collection celebrates writing and honors the writer. The editors-two sisters from Oregon-choose stories that are beautifully written, readable, and emotionally affecting. Each collection is also visually satisfying with handsome cover art and story illustrations, and unusual author profiles.

This collection includes a handful of exceptionally beautiful short stories, the winner of our Poetry Open competition, and an interview with writer/illustrator Daniel Wallace.

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About the Author:

ROY PARVIN lives in the woods of Northern California with his wife and two Border collies. His collection of stories, The Loneliest Road in America, was published by Chronicle Books in 1997. His fiction has won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize. The title story (printed in this issue) of his new collection, In the Snow Forest, has already been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

KAREN KOVACIK was born in East Chicago, Indiana, in 1959. She currently teaches creative writing and literature in the Department of English at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis. Her book, Beyond the Velvet Curtain, winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, appeared from Kent State University Press in fall 1999. Her translations of contemporary Polish poetry have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry East, and Graham House Review.

SIOBHAN DOWD of International PEN's Writers-in-Prison Committee in London writes this article regularly, alerting readers to the plight of writers around the world.

SUSAN FOX was raised in northern Colorado (Fort Collins) and now lives in New York City with her husband. She teaches English at Polytechnic University and The City University of New York, and is working on a short-story collection. This is her first fiction publication.

THOMAS E. KENNEDYs credits include at least five works of fiction, four volumes of literary criticism, and numerous anthologies. His work has won Pushcart, O.Henry, and various European prizes. He lives in Copenhagen, where he serves as International Editor of Cimarron Review and Potpourri, and Advisory Editor of the Literary Review. His newest novels are Beneath the Neon Egg and Marching Bone.

FELICIA OLIVERA is working on her MFA in fiction writing at the University of Utah. She has published restaurant reviews and ski articles, and writes a local real-estate column. All these things, food, skiing, and real estate, she says, are important parts of her life and sustain her while she writes fiction.

MICHAEL UPCHURCH is a Seattle writer whose novels include Air, The Flame Forest, and Passive Intruder. The Cold War is taken from a series of stories about Americans overseas and immigrants in the United States and Canada.

DANIEL WALLACE, author and illustrator, has received a North Carolina Arts Fellowship and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award for his fiction. His short stories have been published in dozens of anthologies including Glimmer Train Stories, Prairie Schooner, Story, and Shenandoah since he began writing in 1984. Hes recently sold movie rights to his first novel, Big Fish.

Thomas E. Kennedy
"Donna Aube"

For a moment then it was as though his parents stood on either side of him, a hand on each of his shoulders. The simmering quiet anger of so many years it had taken him to forgive them for God knew what, first the one, then the other, and now at last he felt that they, too, had forgiven him for God knew what.

Felicia Olivera
"Getting the Dog"

We go in my newly convertible Dodge Dart. What I should say is newly converted, because really, there's no getting back to how it was.

Michael Upchurch
"The Cold War"

"And now, Lotte, we can have children." She gave into him. For the first time, they tried. But they were not able to have any. "So. We will buy a car. We will have daytime excursions instead."

Roy Parvin
"In the Snow Forest"

It was on the drive home that Darby sensed the oddest feeling, a flurrying deep inside, like one tiny element had been added to the mix of a hundred or so in the universe, a difference that small, yet infinite, and he did not know what it was.

Daniel Wallace
Interview by Linda Davies

If you stick too closely to your own experience, you have a built-in ceiling to that story. It's not going to go anywhere, or it's not going to go as far as it could--you can be revolutionary in your art in ways that you can't really be in your life because you have so many important things that would be upset.

Susan Fox
"Meeker"

Toby is a carpenter by training and now he is a boss. This surprises him when he thinks of it, of being a boss, of owning a business, because it is not something he could have imagined for himself when he was younger.

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