Reading: Brittney Corrigan: The Ghost Town Collectives

About The Ghost Town Collectives: These are short stories whose prose functions somewhat as poems; stories are told but reveal far more depth than the playing out of external plot elements or phenomena, through a magical realism that points to the unnamed, often undervalued and authentically fantastic parts of our interiority. These stories are placed squarely in the contemporary Anthropocene, with an emerging hyper-sensitivity to other-than-human organisms that spawns compassion and behavioral adaptations. Corrigan weaves stories that serve as way stations for small mysteries that echo inside us before moving on. Stories that serve as remedy to eco-grief so pervasive in our unraveling world—complete with both natural and fantastic moments of beauty, intrigue, and open metaphors for the reader's mind to wonder through. Wonder, not wander. Brittney Corrigan is the author of the poetry collections Daughters, Breaking, Navigation, 40 Weeks and most recently, Solastalgia, a collection of poems about climate change, extinction, and the Anthropocene Age (JackLeg Press, 2023). Brittney was raised in Colorado and has lived in Portland, Oregon for the past three decades, where she is an alumna and employee of Reed College. The Ghost Town Collectives is her first short story collection. For more information, visit http://brittneycorrigan.com/. Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. His most recent novel, Passersthrough, involves a murder house, a fax machine, communications between the living and the dead, and a mountain lake that moves from place to place. He is also the author of the novels The Night Swimmers, SPELLS, Klickitat, The Shelter Cycle, My Abandonment, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, Carnival Wolves and This Is the Place, as well as a story collection, The Unsettling. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared and been anthologized widely, and his books published in various countries and languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and an Alex Award, as well as a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is a Professor in the English Department of Reed College. Leave No Trace, the film adaptation of My Abandonment, directed by Debra Granik, premiered at Sundance and Cannes and was released to critical acclaim in 2018.

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