Guest-editing next issue of Fifth Wednesday Journal.

5-part writing workshop to be offered, starting evenings, Tuesdays, February 23, and into March, at new store dedicated to the importance of the documentary act, both visual and textual: Wing and Clover, on Market Street in Rhinebeck. Go to www.wingandclover.com for more information.

Novels by Edie Meidav

Short stories

New stories in Conjunctions, Fifth Wednesday, and Chattahoochee Review
A story narrated by an Iraqi vet; an excerpt from forthcoming novel; a fabulistic story in "Betwixt and Between", current issue of Conjunctions; a story written in 20 minutes "Kingdom of the Young"; a story set in upstate New York

Next novel: published by Farrar Straus

STEAL ME
A contemporary novel set in California concerning death penalty, motherhood, dystopia

Fiction

CRAWL SPACE
An exploration of the mind of evil. "He is quite a creation indeed, this aging anti-Quixote with his residual windmills to tilt at." -- Thomas Kenneally, The Washington Post

THE FAR FIELD: A NOVEL OF CEYLON Winner of the Kafka Award; A Best Book of the Year (L.A. Times et al)
An epic, intimate novel in which a blundering westerner goes east. "Complex, imaginative."

--Chitra Divakaruni