reading, writing, Tivo, my dogs, NPR, the hermit lifestyle, writers' colonies, New Zealand sauvignon blancs, Campari, pesto, bird-watching, commas
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.
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
Hey old neighbor! :-) I recently moved back to TN and drove down our old street a couple of weeks ago...it's really strange how little it has changed in 22 years! Hope all is well with you - it looks like you are doing great!
T. F. was at a party at Ted Turner's house, that's where he was! No foolin'. Hey, it looks like I'll be speaking at GSU on April 10. Hope you're around. Send me an email and tell me how classes are going...
Thanks for adding us. Also, stopping by to raise awareness about our new print lit mag, the Noveltown Review. Read a review. Re-post if you like... – Noveltown
