Making Silent Stones Sing
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The poems in Making Silent Stones Sing by Susan Cummins Miller, award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, capture a geoscientist's contemplation of, discoveries in, and wisdom gained from the changing landscape of her life and history. Individual poems explore universal themes: wonder, joy, loss, love, Deep Time, and the healing power and renewal to be found in the solitude and silence of the desert West.
Author Biography:
Tucson writer Susan Cummins Miller, a former field geologist and college instructor, is the author of the novels Chasm, Fracture, Hoodoo, Quarry, Detachment Fault, and Death Assemblage. She compiled and edited the anthology A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922, and her award-winning poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in, or are forthcoming in, numerous journals and anthologies. Deciphering the Desert: a book of poems is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.AWARDS:2021 Finalist Jessie Bryce Niles and Comstock Review 35th-Anniversary Chapbook Contest: WONDERLUST.2020 Finalist Comstock Review Chapbook Contest: A JOURNEY TO KNOWING.2020 Finalist Red Mountain Press Discovery Award: DECIPHERING THE DESERT: a book of poems.2018 Writer in Residence (Winter/Spring), Pima County Public Library, Tucson, AZ.2016 WILLA Award Finalist (Contemporary Fiction): CHASM.2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist (Fiction: Other): CHASM.2012 Poets & Writers grant for Tucson Sisters-in-Crime workshop: "Act II: Into the Belly of the Beast."2012 WILLA Award Finalist (Contemporary Fiction): FRACTURE.2012 New Mexico Book Award Finalist (Mystery/Suspense): FRACTURE.2012 Will Inman Award, Tucson Poetry Festival 29th Annual Statewide Contest: for five poems from DECIPHERING THE DESERT: a work-in-progress.2011 ForeWord Magazine Book-of-the-Year Award Finalist (Mystery): FRACTURE.2011 Southwest Books of the Year Notable Book (Fiction): FRACTURE.1st Place (Short Story), 2011 Society of Southwestern Authors Contest: "Owlshead Stew."2010 Poets & Writers grant for poetry reading at Other Voices Women's Reading Series, Tucson, AZ.2009 WILLA Award Finalist (Contemporary Fiction): HOODOO.1st Place (Poetry), SandScript 2009 Art and Literary Magazine: "Reality Check."2008 Bronze Award, ForeWord Magazine Books of the Year (Mystery): HOODOO.2008 Southwest Books of the Year Panelists' Pick/Notable Book (Fiction): HOODOO.2007 Turquoise Award, New Mexico Book Awards (Mystery): QUARRY.2007 WILLA Award Finalist (Contemporary Fiction): QUARRY.2006 Gold Award, ForeWord Magazine Books of the Year (Mystery): QUARRY.2006 Southwest Books of the Year Notable Book (Fiction): QUARRY.2004 Mountains & Plains Ind. Booksellers' Book Award Finalist (Adult Fiction): DETACHMENT FAULT. 2000 Longan Award Finalist (Nonfiction): A SWEET, SEPARATE INTIMACY.
Release date Australia
February 11th, 2022
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Pages
38
Audience
- General (US: Trade)
Dimensions
140x216x2
ISBN-13
9781646627554
Product ID
35663874
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