Name Sarah Stonich | Role Writer | |
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Books Vacationland, The Ice Chorus, Shelter, Die Hutmacherin, These Granite Islands | ||
Vacationland by sarah stonich book trailer
Sarah Stonich is an American writer and editor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her novel Vacationland was published by the University of Minnesota Press in April 2013.
Contents
- Vacationland by sarah stonich book trailer
- Background and Career
- Awards and honors
- Partial Bibliography
- Reviews
- External links
- References
Background and Career
Stonich was born in northern Minnesota in the area known as the Iron Range, located northwest of Duluth. She moved to the Twin Cities in 1986, where she has worked in the literary community as a columnist, editor, and freelance writer. Her essays and short fiction have been published in Zyzzyva, Columbia Journal, and Minnesota Monthly. Stonich has been an instructor and lecturer at writing conferences and workshops at The Loft, San Miguel Allende Literary Conference, and the Aspen Writers Institute. She is also an editor at WordStalkers. She is married to Jon Ware and lives in Minneapolis.
Her first novel, These Granite Islands, was published by Little Brown in 2001 and was translated into eight languages.
Awards and honors
2011: Northeastern Minnesota Book Award 2004: Loft McKnight Career Development Grant
2002: Shortlisted for Grand Prix Lectrices d’Elle for French translation of These Granite Islands
2000: Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship
1999: Loft McKnight Fellowship for Fiction
Partial Bibliography
These Granite Islands (2001, Little Brown & Co.)
The Ice Chorus (2003, Little, Brown & Co.; re-released 2009, Alma Books UK)
Shelter (2011, Borealis Books)
Vacationland (2013, University of Minnesota Press)
Reviews
Reviewing Vacationland, Kirkus Reviews said: "Each chapter renders a story complete, and the stories together weave a deeply mined narrative of place and people, elegiac yet life-affirming.”