![]() ![]() (Lee Martin author of The Bright Forever )Ī swirling, wise dream of a book, filled with gorgeous writing and a poignant crowd of characters, rescued from the stream of history with ardent insight. Īn assistant professor in the MFA Program at the University of Memphis, Sonja is married to the artist Jim Mott and divides her time between Tennessee and New York State.Ī vibrant and textured creation of women throughout history, some of them famous, others notable for the bravery of their more private lives. Her work has appeared in many literary journals including the Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southeast Review, Brevity, and AGNI online, and is anthologized in several texts on writing, including Short Takes, The Truth of the Matter, The Curious Writer, and Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction. ![]() Sonja’s writing has been honored with a NYFA Fellowship, an Iowa Review Award, and an Arts & Letters Essay Prize, as well as grants from Vermont Studio Center and the Deming Fund for Women. She is also the author of Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses, and her most recent book, Ladies Night at the Dreamland, was published by University of Georgia Press in March 2016. ![]() This week, meet Sonja Livingston, whose first book, the memoir Ghostbread, won an AWP Book Prize for Nonfiction and has been adopted for use by classrooms around the nation. ![]()
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