‘An immersive story of a changing landscape, innovatively told.’
—KIRKUS
When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, residents are forced to gather for safety—resulting in a tangle of love and lust that pulls people from their isolation, friendships that form across political divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways humans inhabit the burning planet. Playing with Wildfire is a literary landscape that is an experiment in form: an astrology report; a grant application-turned-love-story; a phone call from Mother Earth; an obituary for a wildfire; a burned mountain’s conversation with a lone woman and an injured bear. Every story captures how fire affects the human psyche and life, and how destruction can lead to renewal.
Circa l’autore
Laura Pritchett is the author of five novels, two nonfiction books, and editor of three environmental anthologies, and her work has been the recipient of the PEN USA Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the WILLA, the High Plains Book Award, several Colorado Book Awards, and others. Her best-known novel,
Stars Go Blue, has been optioned for TV rights. She’s published over 300 essays and short stories in national venues, most recently in
The Sun,
Terrain,
Camas,
Orion,
Creative Nonfiction, and others. She directs the MFA in Nature Writing at Western Colorado University and holds a Ph D from Purdue University. When not writing or teaching, she can be found sauntering around the West, especially her home state of Colorado.
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