An Avec Sampler: New Writing by Moriarty, Stroffolino, Browne, Albon, Martin, Mclaughlin, Nash

by Cydney Chadwick (Editor)

"An Avec Sampler" features new work by seven writers -- of poetry and experimental fiction -- who have been featured in editor Cydney Chadwick's critically acclaimed magazine Avec, out of Penngrove, California. Included are selections from Laura Moriarty's The Case, a selection of five poems by Chris Stroffolino, Laynie Browne from The Agency Of Wind, George Albon from Step, Stephen-Paul Martin from Not Quite Fiction, five stories by Lissa McLaughlin, and three stories by Susan Smith Nash.

62 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 1997

About the author

A third generation Californian, Cydney Chadwick is the author of eleven titles. Her collection of short stories, "Flesh and Bone," won the Independent Publisher Book Award in 2002. She was also the winner of the New American Fiction Competition in 1998, and received a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Writing. She was awarded a California Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowship in 1997. Her stories have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.
From 1988 to 2005 she was publisher of Avec Books including titles which included translations of Russian and French poets to books of post-postmodern feminist stories.
Her latest book is “Cut and Run.”