Laura Valeri’s debut collection, The Kind Of Things Saints Do
(2002), won both the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and the
Binghamton University John Gardner Award in Fiction; John Dufresne
described it as “a daring and stunning debut.”
The promise revealed in
those stories has only deepened in the years since I first became
acquainted with both Laura and her work. I have known her as both an
academic colleague and a fellow fiction writer, and I’ve enjoyed
discussing the art and craft of life with her. She is wise and funny and
smart, a natural storyteller, a gifted teacher, and a devoted
connoisseur of good food, good conversation, and good words.
Her most recent title is Safe in Your Head (2013), a Stephen
F. Austin Press prizewinner, a novel in stories featuring recipes and
luck remedies for women during war time. I was grateful that she took
the time to share how these dreamy, powerful tales came to be, how they
commingle magic and history and the fine food of Laura’s native Italy in
a collection of narratives both ethereal and earthy.
You can find that interview here: http://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/whats-inevitable-an-interview-with-laura-valeri/
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