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Sheri Joseph

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About Me

My new novel, Stray , published by MacAdam/Cage, has won the Grub Street National Book Prize . It's now available in paperback. I also have a story cycle called Bear Me Safely Over , which shares some characters with Stray.
I teach in the creative writing program at Georgia State University. I'm fiction editor of Five Points literary magazine (see the bell-ringing bear below), and I have an actual fan club page (see also below) made by a 17-yr-old fan I've never met and who is not related to me. For a more complete bio and to read excerpts from my books, go here .
Praise for Stray:
“Joseph tells an intense story about an unconventional love triangle… a swiftly moving [and] compelling tale of reconciliation and redemption as the lovers are forced to face their flawed perceptions head-on.” – Booklist
"Stray is the best story of a mixed gender three-person love affair since Michael Cunningham’s A Home at the End of the World.” – Ken Furtado, Echo Magazine
“Joseph's potent tale of sexual deception and emotional redemption is a seductive stew of love story and murder mystery about three fundamentally fine, and gratifyingly complex, people.” – Richard LaBonte, San Francisco Bay Guardian
“With great skill and psychological insight, Sheri Joseph has crafted a highly compelling mystery about the duplicitous nature of what we call love: its tender cruelties and its potential for placing us all in mortal danger.” – Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes and The Whole World Over
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My Interests

reading, writing, Tivo, my dogs, NPR, the hermit lifestyle, writers' colonies, New Zealand sauvignon blancs, Campari, pesto, bird-watching, commas

I'd like to meet:

Readers, writers, book people, Colin Meloy.

Music:

The Decemberists, Morrissey, R.E.M., Everything But the Girl, Leonard Cohen, Aimee Mann, The Beautiful South, Kelly Hogan, The Jody Grind

Television:

The Wire, The Office, 24, Pushing Daisies, Project Runway, Lost, Rescue Me, Weeds, Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Books:

Moby Dick, Revolutionary Road, anything by Faulkner, Crime and Punishment, The Transit of Venus, Pale Fire, Madame Bovary, Time Will Darken It, Being Dead, Death in Venice, Remains of the Day, Love Medicine, Atonement, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Housekeeping, Hell at the Breech, The Hours, Lolita, Beloved, Bel Canto, Fingersmith, Three Junes, The Persian Boy, The Things They Carried, Empire Falls, Disgrace, Cruddy, Airships, Jazz, The Danish Girl, Jesus' Son, etc.

Heroes:

Jon Stewart

My Blog

Stray is a finalist for things!

Such as: the Lambda Literary Award (in the "bisexual" category--which is so much closer to somehow sort of appropriate than where they first put it: "women’s fiction")And: the Townsend Award, wh...
Posted by Sheri Joseph on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:46:00 PST

Stray is now available in paperback

The Stray paperback is now for sale, and it’s gorgeoussame cover as the hardback, with a few extra blocks for accolades and suchand, like the hardcover, it is disturbingly large.  But don...
Posted by Sheri Joseph on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:25:00 PST

Another (fun) interview

Greetings, all, from bloody Scotland, where I'm attempting to write a new book (not about Scotland).  Wanted to let you know there's a new interview up on the Ploughshares blog here.  It's g...
Posted by Sheri Joseph on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:42:00 PST

Things you miss if you forget to google yourself daily

People used to come up to me in grocery stores and tell me I looked like Jennifer Grey.  This was many years ago, back when I was cuter and she had her original nose.  One person thought I a...
Posted by Sheri Joseph on Wed, 23 May 2007 03:41:00 PST

Listen to my voice! Another interview

Don't you get tired of reading about me?  To give your weary eyes a break, I provide you with this podcast interview I did with Josh and Sara of Here! TV, a gay cable channel based in NYC.  ...
Posted by Sheri Joseph on Fri, 11 May 2007 12:10:00 PST

An interview

Here's an interview that I did with Michael Leonard at Curledup.com about Stray.There's also a nice accompanying review linked at the end, or you can read it here....
Posted by Sheri Joseph on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:08:00 PST