Diane Simmons
My blogs
| Location | United States |
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| Introduction | I'm a writer originally from Eastern Oregon, now living in the greater New York City area, which is to say Jersey. My short story collection, Little America, has won the 2010 Ohio State University award for fiction and was published by OSU Press in June. I've put up first paragraphs to the title story and another story from the collection, "Yukon River." I've also put up some New York stories, not in the Little America collection. The "souvenir" in the story of that title is from Auschwitz. "Starry Night" is set at the Temple Bar in Greenwich Village. In "Dominicans," dancing eases death. dianesimmons@verizon.net - |
| Interests | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've published short fiction in a number of places including Missouri Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Northwest Review, Fiction, Green Mountain Review, Local Knowledge, College Hill Review and Hamilton Stone Review, Spindle, Oregon Literary Review, and Blood Orange Review. New work forthcoming from Drunken Boat. My first novel, "Let the Bastards Freeze in the Dark, " was set in Alaska, and published by Simon and Schuster. My second novel, "Dreams Like Thunder, " published by Story Line Press won the Oregon Book Award for Fiction, was favorably reviewed in the LA Times and NY Times. I have also published book-length critical studies of Jamaica Kincaid and Maxine Hong Kingston and--for some reason--a study of narcissism in popular British Imperial Writing, "The Narcissism of Empire." |