Böcker av Ashley Marie Farmer

A girl drinks river water that gives her good advice but a bad reputation. A young woman's job at a make-up counter ends in disaster. Car accidents and cornfields cause siblings to disappear while, up above, airplane banners advertise hair care products. Welcome to Beside Myself, Ashley Farmer's debut collection of short stories. These brief, lucid dreams illuminate the moment the familiar becomes strange and that split second before everything changes forever.

Latest installment in our Series in Kentucky Literature. ; Labeled as an essay collection, there is really a hybrid of forms at play here; it pulls on autobiography, audio transcripts, media, legal documents, Internet comments, and short prose pieces. Stunning. ; Farmer is the Assistant Dir. of Learning and Engagement at Utah Museum of Fine Arts. She previously worked at the University of Louisville and the Speed Art Museum (also in Louisville). ; She earned her MFA from Syracuse University. ; Farmer has won numerous prizes. Roxane Gay/Gay Magazine¿s ¿Best of 2019¿ for the book¿s essay ¿Mercy Killing¿; Rebecca Solnit selected an essay for Best American Nonfiction 2019; Farmer¿s chapbook was a finalist for the Chapbook 2019 Gold Line Press contest; Ninth Letter¿s Creative Nonfiction Award 2018; Los Angeles Review Short Fiction Award 2017; Roxane Gay¿s "Excellent Small Press Books You Should Check Out.¿ January 2017. ; Her past books have landed her on ¿best of¿ lists from Buzzfeed and Entropy. ; Other works published in Gay Magazine, TriQuarterly, Gigantic, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. ; She is the author of three other books, one poetry, one a novella, and one short stories. ; Farmer is married to a recent Sarabande author (Ryan Ridge who wrote New Bad News, which came out 2020), and together they co-edit Juked. They also plan to tour together! ;Cities where she¿s previously lived (to consider for touring purposes): Louisville, Carson City (NV), Los Angeles.