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Summer of Government Cheese
by Paula Coomer

Description:Valerie Miner calls Paula Coomer's first collection of short fiction "witty, hard-hitting, melancholy and passionate . . . . Her fine work is characterized by a palpable sense of place as well as by a strong compassion for, indeed love for, her idiosyncratic characters." Idaho author Mary Clearman-Blew remarks that Coomer's "stories are as sparkling and unexpected as found pennies, with their promise of pleasure in turning the next page." Coomer's debut is stunning.

Paula Coomer's fiction, poetry, and non-fiction have appeared in various journals and anthologies, most recently Gargoyle and the anthology Forged In Fire from University of Oklahoma Press. The following will be released in 2006 and early 2007 from Sandhill Press's Lewis-Clark imprint: Road, a single-poem chapbook; Devil At My Crossroads, a collection of poems; and Summer Of Government Cheese, a short story collection.