Out of Place: Prose Poems Microfiction [Paperback]

Here are big stories rendered in miniature and fleeting moments captured with elaborate focus. A stolen glimpse of a father dancing alone to music; Gothic landscapes on the New South Wales coast; incredible spectrums in the colors of butterflies; Aussie cricket and climate change; remembrances of an exiled home land; or the awkward sexual politics at a funeral. These stories capture delightful and unsettling moments of estrangement, when the new becomes familiar and the ordinary, sublime. Authors include Ceridwen Dovey, Rjurik Davidson, Tania Hershman, Roberta Lowing, Angela Meyer, and John Tranter.

Kirsten Tranter is the author ofThe Legacy, which was selected as aKirkus ReviewsBest Debut Novel of the year, shortlisted for the ABIA Literary Fiction award, the ALS Gold Medal, the Indie Debut Fiction award, and longlisted for the Miles Franklin award. She grew up in Sydney, lived in New York from 1998-2006, where she completed a PhD at Rutgers University, and now lives in Berkeley and teaches at UC Berkeley.Linda Godfreyis the coeditor of several collections of microlit, includingFlashing the Square,Small Wonder, andWriting to the Edge.