Natalie Sypolt is an assistant professor at Pierpont Community & Technical College. She coordinates the high school workshop for the West Virginia Writers' Workshop at West Virginia University and has served as a literary editor for the Anthology of Appalachian Writers. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Appalachian Heritage, Kenyon Review Online, and Willow Springs. She is the winner of the Glimmer Train new writers contest, the Betty Gabehart Prize, the West Virginia Fiction Award, and the Still fiction contest. This is her first book. Learn more at nataliesypolt.com.
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This is writing of the highest order, with a sense of place so vivid we can smell the lake water and feel the breeze as it comes up to greet us on the front porch where we're peeling potatoes alongside characters so real they threaten to walk off the page and into our lives. Every sentence sings and every story haunts the reader in all of the best ways. A bold and important debut that announces a major new voice. It's also the best story collection I've read in a long while."" - Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt and Southernmost ""These bold stories of individuals in conflict and love, rooted deep in their families and communities, echo those of Sherwood Anderson, Carson McCullers, and Breece Pancake. At the same time, Sypolt depicts contemporary Appalachia like no one else. This is a rich and astonishing debut."" - Laura Long, author of Out of Peel Tree and coeditor of Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia