Description: "When turmoil erupts in her personal life, a struggling writer finds that her real-world problems start to change her work. Can she learn to make artistic choices that improve her art and help her make sense of her life? Told in a fragmentary style that blurs the line between reality and the imagination, Fictions considers the technical demands of getting our longings onto the page"--
Brief description:
Ashley Honeysett has lived throughout the United States as well as in Ireland and Japan and is now
raising a child with her husband outside of Chicago, where she works as a fundraiser for environmental
nonprofits. She studied creative writing at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and published poetry
and prose in journals there and at Michigan State University. Fictions is her first book.
Review Quotes:
"Simultaneously novella-in-stories, plague journal, memoir, and meditation on writing, Ashley Honeysett's Fictions illuminates and explores the mind of a storyteller wrestling with the essential strangeness of writing fiction at a time when a common story has eluded us all. A box of finely made enchantments."
--Hugh Sheehy, author of Design Flaws