About the Author:
Sage Graduate Fellow of Cornell University (MFA) and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lock Haven University, Marjorie Maddox has published eleven collections of poetry, four children s books, and over 500 stories, essays, and poems in journals and anthologies. Co-editor with Jerry Wemple of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, she is the great grandniece of Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who helped break the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson.
Review:
"What She Was Saying shows Maddox as a masterful and insightful storyteller..."-NewPages
"....What She Was Saying is all at once difficult to read and hard to turn away. Maddox puts words to the things we think or conjure without proof, sometimes with only the slightest of revelations. These stories bring to light the inner person, the humanity of us and displays how we may honor or dismiss them altogether. Haunting, yet strangely encouraging, I would urge the reading of these stories - they shed light on the human condition, the story of one's life, and the cry to handle each with care" --Janna Lynas at Englewood Review of Books
RECOMMENDED by US Review of Books: "Maddox has a gift forrecapitulating the uncomfortable nitty gritty of life's circumstances as if it [were] common everyday language. . . .A definite read for thosewho are looking for an honest portrayal of life" -Anita Lock
"...Maddox's exploration. . .[is] stunning. . . .These stories do whatgood stories do, they promote empathy and understanding, which issomething we could all use more of"-TTC
What She Was Saying, a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Award, delves into memory and desire, loss and longing, and the unexpected pathos of the commonplace. In these finely-wrought stories, Marjorie Maddox reveals the complex space between the spoken and the glimpsed unspoken in the lives of women....undeniably a vital and compelling collection. Her stories, full of humor and heartbreak, absurdity and terror, offer a window into the unarticulated lives of women -Marcela Fuentes at Mom Egg Review
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