Report from a Place of Burning

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• galleys at ALA and regional trade and library shows• national review media• co-winner of the 2017 Leapfrog Fiction Contest •The book addresses issues of faith, religious and secular, of the intimate connections between the dead and the living, and of how mystery is at the core of all human experience and how best we might deal with that truth.•That it is written in six voices, and its structure is meditative, not narrative. The narrative emerges from the threads that hold the six separate stories the narrators tell together, primarily the babies burning up in their cribs under very strange circumstances.•As the prophet, who is one of the six narrators of the novel, would insist, the Book of Revelation is a main inspiration for this novel, as is the story of the experiment that raised questions about the constancy of the speed of light.•Well-published author who does many speaking engagements, workshops, and events. • Just won the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry, and is a 2x winner of the Missouri Review's Editor's Prize in poetry, 2005 White Pine Press Poetry Prize, 1995 Bluestem Award, 2007 Elixir Press Fiction Chapbook Award• Setting of the novel will be recognized as Bowling Green, OH, by anyone who has lived there. • Three chapters of this novel were published in Permafrost as a story• Attends AWP every year• Author's stories and poems have been published more than 100x in literary journals from 2010-2017 alone•