Heirlooms: Stories

Hall, Rachel

ISBN 10: 188615791X / ISBN 13: 9781886157910

Published by BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016

Seller Inventory # 188615791X-3-24659136

Synopsis:

Heirlooms won the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction from BkMk Press, selected by Marge Piercy, and has received endors4ements from Joanna Scott (“a masterful collection, infused with devastating beauty…Hall succeeds in animating loss, preserving memory, and adding powerful imaginative truth to the historical record.); Steve Almond (“Hall traces the fragile resilience and quiet horrors of those displaced by war.She happens to be writing about the Second World War, but these are stories that speak to the essential human experiences of exile and loss and survival.”); and Nancy Reisman (“Hall’s vision crosses borders and generations, through language at once lyrical and deeply distilled.”)

About the Author: Rachel Hall's short stories and essays have appeared in such journals and anthologies as Black Warrior Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gettysburg Review, Fifth Wednesday and New Letters, which awarded her the Alexander Cappon Prize for Fiction. She has also received honors and awards from Lilith, Glimmer Train, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Ragdale, the Ox-Bow School of the Arts, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Hall is professor of English in the creative writing program at the State University of New York at Geneseo, where she holds the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She lives in Rochester, New York, with her husband and daughter. Her family's wartime papers and photographs, the inspiration for these stories, were recently donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Heirlooms: Stories
Publisher: BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good