>Congratulations Susan Meyers!

>SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) yesterday announced the winners of the 2007 SIBA Awards and I am thrilled that Susan Myers’s book Keep and Give Away won in the poetry category. It is a wonderful book and deserving of this award. Congratulations, Susan!

(Other winners: Fiction, Charles Frazier for Thirteen Moons; Nonfiction, Charles Shields for Mockingbird; Children’s, Watt Key for Alabama Moon; and Cookbooks, Amy Sedaris for I Like You.)

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

Comments

  1. >Thanks, Cliff! I’m thrilled to be in such good company. I’m excited, USC Press is excited–we’re celebrating bigtime.

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