Fiction. "In these elegant tales—not so much adventure, comedy, and romance, as of their residue—Alison Bundy summons up the world's distance with a bright paradoxical immediacy that is sometimes almost magical. She is a poet to the prose line born, playing with the possibilities of plot as though it were a metrical system, rhymed with thought's assonantal drift. This is rich comic writing, delicate and sure, touched at times by a wistful longing as a kiss might be touched by irony. Or life's violence by the tenderness of dream"—Robert Coover.

Author City: PROVIDENCE, RI USA

Alison Bundy was born in Texas in 1959 and grew up in Unity, Maine. She has an MFA from Brown University and has worked both as a teacher and a plumber. Her prose has appeared in journals like Ploughshares, Sulfur, Nimrod. Her books include DUNCECAP (Burning Deck, 1998), A BAD BUSINESS (Lost Roads Publishers, 1985), and TALE OF A GOOD COOK (Paradigm Press, 1990).