Greg Sanders

About me:

I'm the author of Motel Girl, a collection of 21 short stories, published by Red Hen Press. For more info, visit gregorysanders.com.

You can now buy Motel Girl here:

Amazon
B&N
Red Hen Press
In NYC: St. Mark's Books, McNally Jackson Booksellers and other indy establishments.

From the back cover:
Motel Girl is an exploration of the contemporary laws of romance, longing and sex, of how a computerized, branded universe is now fully integrated into the fabric of our thought and behavior. It is a journey, a frenetic and disarming joy ride. These stories create a new paradigm for the American short story, an expansion in narrative reach, creative power, and experimentation.

"Greg Sanders has hit the bullseye with Motel Girl. The stories--original, often surreal, yet thoroughly convincing--are tone-perfect, exuding a marvelous, full-bodied authority. An astonishingly fine debut. "
--Janet Fitch, author of Paint It Black

"Greg Sanders's stories are ingenious and original--but more important, he's a fabulist with a heart."
--David Gates, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Wonders of the Invisible World, Jernigan and Preston Falls

From Publishers Weekly:
Realistic absurdity ties together the short stories of Sanders’s intelligent and funny collection. Throughout, unsuspecting protagonists become entangled in bizarre (and yet vaguely believable) situations. There’s Nadya, the Moscow-based freelance translator narrator of “Choco” who adopts a circus bear; Alan, who, in “Aesthetic Displeasure Unearths Lack of Marital Fortitude,” visits an old college friend in the woods and discovers that rumors of a wandering robot might be true; and the anonymous insurance filer in “The Gallery” who finds a portal of rebirth triggered by an erotic sculpture. Between boring jobs and sexual depravity, it seems at first blush that the characters are doomed to unfulfilling, pitiful lives, but, upon closer inspection, it appears there may be something redeeming about them after all. Skillfully narrated and concisely written, this collection of short stories is at once comical, cringe-worthy, relevant and weird. (Sept.)

Here are some stories (some are also included in MG) that are available in print:

The Jew of Starbucks in the Los Angeles Review Issue No. 5
The Suffering of Lesser Mammals in the Warwick Review Vol 2 No. 3 (available in the U.K.)
Neutral in 3: AM London, New York, Paris
PS2 Mouse Adapter and Iz Tart Fook in Opium Magazine Print #4
Port Authority, Part I in LIT #11
Choco in Pindeldyboz #6 (read the rave review in Utne Reader)
The Gallery in the anthology The Crucifix Is Down
Motel Girl in the anthology Blue Cathedral
Garage Door reprinted from the Web in Mississippi Review 26/3
A Walking Tour of the East Village in The Time Out Book of New York Walks

...and online:

American Hoverfly in Essays & Fictions
The Cure in 3:AM Magazine
Mr. Hallucinosis in Mississippi Review
L. in Epiphany Magazine
Nine Vignettes in Mississippi Review
From Lamereaux in Mississippi Review
Garage Door in Mississippi Review

For a lot more information about my writing, please see my website.