SARAH ANNE STRICKLEY is the author of four books of prose. She’s a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowship, an Ohio Arts grant, the Copper Nickel Editors’ Prize for Prose, and other honors. Her stories and essays have appeared in Oxford American, A Public Space, Witness, The Normal School, Ninth Letter, storySouth and elsewhere. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. She’s an Assistant Professor of creative writing at the University of Louisville, where she serves as Faculty Editor of Miracle Monocle and the Director of the UofL PubLab. Website: sarahannestrickley.com IG handle: @saystrick
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Ode to Collapse offers up the writer’s mind as a cabinet of curiosities, and Sarah Anne Strickley the guide who has picked you, of all people, to enchant with the room’s stashed secrets. Here, a precisely detailed diorama atop a floating tank; there, a taxidermy tableau surrounded by mystery blooms. Or maybe this book is a finely wrought apothecary chest, each elegant essay a drawer. Slide one open and discover inside: a balm, a jagged shard, a whole other tiny world. Wait, no, it’s a gorgeously illuminated treasure map, and the answer to “how do you get your ideas?” is waiting for the rag-tag group of seekers who dare to follow its lead. I could go on. Isn’t it amazing how many beautiful and useful things a Sarah Anne Strickley collection can be?
–Erin Keane, author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me and chief content officer, Salon.com
Sarah Anne Strickley is one of the smartest writers out there. In Ode To Collapse she captures the entire breadth of what it means to be human, to be scarred, to be ambitious, and to be resilient. Whether she is writing about sensory deprivation tanks, catastrophic fires, or pet newts, Strickley is fearless, exacting, and also funny. Full of crisp and occasionally haunting prose, this is a beautiful and memorable book.”
–Tom McAllister, author of It All Felt Impossible
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