Description: Although Cross River's residents may be halted or deterred in their search for fulfillment, their spirits remain resilient--always evolving and constantly moving.
Brief description: Rion Amilcar Scott teaches English at Bowie State University. He earned an MFA at George Mason University, where he won both the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award and a Completion Fellowship. His work has appeared in publications such as the Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, PANK, The Rumpus, Fiction International, the Washington City Paper, The Toast, and Confrontation.
Review Quotes:
Scott's fiction is at once incredibly precise, rooted in contemporary reality, and dreamy, magical, uncertain. . . . This book is the finest collection of short stories I have read in a very long time, and Scott is a major new voice. You can't afford to miss him.
-- "Brooklyn Magazine"