Patty Somlo

Patty Somlo’s books include From Here to There and Other Stories (Paraguas Books), The First to Disappear (Spuyten Duyvil), Hairway to Heaven Stories (Cherry Castle Publishing), and Even When Trapped Behind Clouds: A Memoir of Quiet Grace (WiDo Publishing, 2016). Three of them have been finalists for independent book awards. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Guernica, Gravel, Sheepshead Review, Under the Sun, the Los Angeles Review, The Nassau Review, and over 30 anthologies. She received Honorable Mention for Fiction in the Women’s National Book Association Contest, was a Finalist in the Parks and Points Fall 2019 Essay Contest, and she had an essay selected as Notable for Best American Essays 2014. Find her here or on Twitter.

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