Fiction. Poetry. Cross-Genre. This is not the mythic Manhattan of bright lights and glitz. It is called MANHATTEN and it is wonderfully out of kilter. In this mixed-genre book (fiction, poetry, review), Sarah Rosenthal layers headlong, voice-driven prose with silent, otherly poems to tell a story of an island where relationships are disturbed yet meaningful and luminous"--Juliana Spahr. "I like Sarah Rosenthal's Manhatten because it's generous with self. Also alarmingly well written. And best of all, MANHATTEN awkwardly and beautifully makes the claim that heterosexuals are human too!"--Eileen Myles.

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

Sarah Rosenthal grew up in Chicago and lives in San Francisco. She is the author of three chapbooks: How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001), SITINGS (a+bend, 2000) and not-chicago (Melodeon Poetry Systems, 1998). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals and have been anthologized in BAY POETICS (Faux Press, 2006) and hinge (Crack Press, 2002). She has taught creative writing at Santa Clara University and San Francisco State University. She has edited a collection of interviews entitled A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area. She is the recipient of the Leo Litwak Award for Fiction and grant-supported writing residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Ragdale Foundation.

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