Description
Fiction. "Writing in heightened, magical prose reminiscent of Marquez and Toni Morrison, Margaret Benbow has produced the liveliest collection of tales you're likely to read this year, or in any year. BOY INTO PANTHER is bursting with incident and populated with an incredible cast of artists, priests, tailors, gypsies, new immigrants, cuckolded mushroom-hunters, and grieving widows-people of sorrow and persistence, all of them fighting for love, or lacking that, a scrap of dignity."—Lin Enger
Author Bio
Margaret Benbow's stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. She's won numerous awards for both stories and poems. Benbow received Pushcart nominations, an Arts Board grant, Library Association award, the Paula Chandler Prize, the Walt McDonald First Book Award for a poetry collection, Zona Gale Award, and many others. Most recently, she received the New Rivers Many Voices Project prize for fiction. She's now writing a novel in linked stories about outsider artists, whom she admires very much: their struggles, loves, enemies, incredible persistence, and occasional startling triumphs against all odds.
Author City: MADISON, WI USA