Jeanne Leiby, editor of The Southern Review, coming to sign her book Downriver: Short Stories. Cover artist/photographer Patricia Izzo to show featured piece, Candy Necklace, and other pieces du jour.
November 16th 6pm-10pm.
Jeanne Leiby grew up downriver Detroit. She graduated from the University of Michigan, earned her MA from the Bread Loaf School of English/ Middlebury College, and her MFA from the University of Alabama. Her stories, many of them collected here, have appeared in Fiction, New Orleans Review, The Greensboro Review and Indiana Review, among others.
For ten years, she has lived in Orlando, Florida, teaching creative writing at the University of Central Florida and editing The Florida Review. In 2008, she will move to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as an associate professor of English at Louisiana State University and editor of The Southern Review.
Advance Praise for Downriver
"These eleven stories are fueled by a robust mix of voices - children, young women, mothers, fathers- all of whom are driven to survive past losses of the overwhelming challenges of their present circumstances.
Withing this collection, I had my favorites, but every story delivered on its promise- to let us into a world of fully realized,
breathing human beings whose lives might be different from ours in the details, but whose hopes and fears we recognize, and whose fates matter to us as much as our own.Another pleasure of this book was the precision of the language, te tight and natural dialogue, simplepm the surface yet rich with subtext. I didn't want to stop reading, and when I had to, I went back as soon as I could- as we do with any place we love to visit."-- Quin Dalton, judge of the Doris Bakwin Award.
About the Press: Carolina Wren Press publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children's books (under its Lollipop Power imprint). As our mission (new authors, new audiences) suggests, the Press is committed to an ever-growing vision of the audience for, and the producers of, contemporary literature.
