{"id":7749,"date":"2018-01-31T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2022-03-14T13:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:43:04","slug":"books-by-hollins-authors-winter-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/books-by-hollins-authors-winter-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Books by Hollins Authors: Winter 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7750 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/moon.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for Behind the Moon\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Behind the Moon<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Madison Smartt Bell M.A. 1981<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>City Lights Publisher, 2017<\/p>\n<p>In Bell\u2019s latest novel, a girl named Julie, fleeing from a violent sexual encounter in the desert, tumbles into a cave and falls into a fever dream inspired by ancient drawings on the cave walls. . . . [A ] powerful, mindbending work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7753 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mars.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for Mars Poetica\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Mars Poetica<\/i><\/strong><br \/>\nWyn Cooper M.A. 1981<br \/>\nWhite Pine Press, 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWyn Cooper\u2019s poems are cold compresses for the inflamed mind. They calm and refresh with their clarity and lucidity; their music soothes and enlivens; their intelligence and their sure craft sustain us and confirm our faith in art. They are a perfect antidote for the fevers of our historical moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Vijay Seshadri<\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7755 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rose.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for Rose In Charge\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Rose in Charge, A Rose McNess Mystery<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nBarbara M. Dickinson M.A.L.S. 1983<br \/>\nDorrance Publishing Co., 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7759 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/but.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for The Beauty of the BUT\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Beauty of the BUT: And other musings of God\u2019s goodness<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nShanna Flowers M.A.L.S. 2013<br \/>\nCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7757 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/uncrossing.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for The Uncrossing\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i><em>The Uncrossing<\/em><br \/>\n<\/i><\/strong>Melissa Eastlake 2007\u00a0<strong><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/strong>CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7761 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/memories.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for Memories of Green\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Memories of Green<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Erin Ganaway M.F.A. 2008<br \/>\nFinishing Line Press, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cErin Ganaway\u2019s poems are as emotionally deep as they are clear-cut and precise at the surface. The elegiac poems of <em>Memories of Green <\/em>offer their readers an almanac of loss, an atlas of grief, and yet, in their close attention to the natural world (both inner and outer), a calendar of celebration. They condense the complex collateral damage surrounding a suicide, the memories and regrets and moments of providentially heightened awareness, into a poetry of pure presence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014R.H.W. Dillard<\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7763 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/train.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Rachel McCarthy James 2008 (with Bill James)<br \/>\nScribner, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImpressive . . . an open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7765 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sit-down.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for Let's Sit Down, Figure This Out\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Let&#8217;s Sit Down, Figure This Out<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Grant Kittrell M.F.A. 2014<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Groundhog Poetry Press LLC, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7768 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/anchor.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for The House of Anchor\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The House of Anchor<\/i>\u00a0<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Christine Macconnell 1996, M.A. 1998<br \/>\nCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7770 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/brii.jpg\" alt=\"Book Jacket for A Child of Brii: A Novel of the Sayan\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Child of Brii: A novel of the Sayan<\/em>\u00a0<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Amanda J. McGee 2010<br \/>\nIndependently Published, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7772 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/solos.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for Star City Solos\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Star City Solos<\/i><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Sarah Reaser O\u2019Brien 2007<br \/>\nPiano Pronto Publishing, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7774 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cattail.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for The Spirit of Cattail Country\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Spirit of Cattail Country<\/i><\/strong><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Victoria Piontek M.F.A. 2014<br \/>\nScholastic Press, 2018<\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7776 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/loved.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for How He Loved Them\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>How He Loved Them<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Kevin Prufer M.A. 1994<br \/>\nFour Way Books, 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoetry at full boil, poured with deliberate abandon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014David Orr, <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7778 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/arms.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for Her Arms Can Hold Me\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Her Arms Can Hold Me<\/strong><\/em><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>Susan Harkness Regli M.A. 1990<br \/>\nCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platforms, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7780 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hoot.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for A Letter for Hoot\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>A Letter for Hoot<\/i><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Holly Surgner Spofford 1990<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>HSS, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-full-width\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" style=\"border-color: #006648;border-style: dotted;border-bottom-width: 2px;margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7782 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/encounters.jpg\" alt=\"Book jacket for Close Encounters: Origins: Urban Legends\" width=\"125\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Close Encounters, Origins: Urban Legends<\/i><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong><em> \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Cheri Johnson M.A. 2001<br \/>\nFull Tilt Press, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Creatures, Origins: Urban\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>Legends<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><i> <\/i>Full Tilt Press, 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i><strong>Hauntings, Origins: Urban Legends<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/i>Full Tilt Press, 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i><strong>Superstitions, Origins: Urban Legends<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/i>Full Tilt Press, 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i><strong>Forensics, Origins: Urban Legends<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/i>Full Tilt Press, 2017<\/p>\n<p><i><strong>Heists, Origins: Urban Legends<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/i>Full Tilt Press, 2017<\/p>\n<p><i><strong>Law Enforcement, Origins: Urban Legends<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/i>Full Tilt Press, 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i><strong>Organized Crime, Origins: Urban Legends<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/i>Full Tilt Press, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the Moon Madison Smartt Bell M.A. 1981 City Lights Publisher, 2017 In Bell\u2019s latest novel, a girl named Julie, fleeing from a violent sexual encounter in the desert, tumbles into a cave and falls into a fever dream inspired 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