Once upon a time there was hope.
Hope for the environment and hope for elephants and cows and salmon. Hope for trans women, who are a particularly targeted minority, and hope for all people, CIS, or not, queer, straight and/or all orientations. Hope for justice, hope for peace, hope for enough prosperity for people in California and Greece and Nigeria, and China. And Gaza City and Mexico City. And in your house and in your hometown. Hope for books and hope for learning. Hope for presidents, preachers, and sex workers. And health care workers, particularly first responders and paramedics. Hope for kids of all ages. Hope for all creative people making whatever it is they make in the direction of the good.
Happy 2013.
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Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a magical realist prose fiction writer, novelist, occasional essayist, and a committed, intermittent poet, as well as a passionate instructor of writing. A 7-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize she has published work in Hayden's Ferry, Pearl, CRATE, Rhapsoidia, NYCBigCityLit, the East Jasmine Review, Apeiron, Inlandia, Literary Alchemy and the Bellevue Literary Review among other places. She is the author the fabulist novel THE PUPPET TURNERS OF NARROW INTERIOR (Urban Farmhouse Press), a novelette, RESCUE PLAN (Bamboo Dart Press), a prose poem chapbook collection, SEX WITH BUILDINGS (dancing girl press), and a poetry collection, HOW FORMAL (Spout Hill Press).
Stephanie's new novel PRETEND PLUMBER is available for order from your favorite bookstore, and her poetry chapbook CITY SLICKER appeared in July 2022. Stay tuned for her novella, JOURNEY TO MERVEILLEUX CITY, coming out in 2023!
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