These Granite Islands
A Novel
by Sarah Stonich

List Price: $13.95
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0316815586
Publisher: Back Bay

I started writing relatively late - in my thirties. I've written articles and essays on travel, visual arts, food, and sports. I also write short stories, but currently I'm researching my second novel for Little Brown, a multi-generational saga about a family with members originating from both ends of the Mississippi. Right now it's called "American River", but titles can change with the wind... I've won a couple awards, and that's been a real boost - but even better are the writer's residency programs I've attended - the luxury of having time to write is priceless. I've been to Ragdale, North of Chicago, half a dozen times, and this spring I'll be in Upstate NY at ART OMI. This summer I'll be in Ireland at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Last winter I traveled to China on a Jerome Grant to collaborate with a Chinese-American painter on a series of essays. I think travel is especially vital to the writer - and I try to visit a new place whenever I can afford to. When I'm not writing, I'm renovating old houses in the historic section of St. Paul, near the Mississippi. I live just above downtown St. Paul with my 13 year old son, Sam, and my cat, Bald Walter, and while I'd like to think I'd never, ever mention a pet in a bio, he is 22 years old and still catches bats.

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