Laura Leigh Morris is an assistant professor at Furman University. She has previously published short fiction in the Louisville Review, Weave Magazine, Conclave: A Journal of Character, and other journals. She spent three years as the National Endowment for the Arts/Bureau of Prisons Artist-in-Residence at Bryan Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. She is from north central West Virginia. This is her first book.
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Laura Leigh Morris proves to us that stories are, indeed, everywhere. She tells them with the sharp eye and wit of a master storyteller. Superb."" - Larry Heinemann, winner of the National Book Award for Paco's Story ""A very fine work with plenty of surprises, clever setups, satisfying payoffs, and vivid characters and mise en scene."" - Robert Gipe, author of Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel ""Jaws of Life surges beyond Appalachian literature, or regional literature, straight into the heart of what matters on the universal level."" - George Singleton, author of The Half-Mammals of Dixie ""Look for something no one else sees,' says one character in this fine debut, in which the people of Brickton lose many things - loved ones, their tempers, a good night's sleep, five years of freedom - but never their power."" - Joni Tevis, author of The World Is On Fire