Just a small shop here
Award-winning novel
Middling, IL is struggling under the malaise that affects so many small towns in the 21st century. Cataclysmic weather, declining family farms, inept government, corrupt churches, and young people in crisis. When the ghosts of former residents mobilize to help the living, they find their best intentions may have grave consequences. Now a few townspeople—particularly one brave woman journalist—have to rise to the challenge and ensure a future for their beleaguered town.
Through a series of interconnected stories, this satirical novel is at times dark, but ultimately hopeful. Under the Moon in Illinois is a great book club read—literary, unconventional, and massively entertaining.
Winner of the Chris O'Malley Prize in Fiction, the Wild Women Award from Tulip Tree, and two-time finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award. Stories from this collection have been published or recognized by the Madison Review, Narrative Magazine, the TulipTree Review, the Bellingham Review, and the Whitefish Review.
UTMII t-shirt
You can’t actually buy this here—I’m sorting out the store with our merch vendor. It looks cool, though, doesn’t it? If you want one, contact me and I’ll set you up. (Tats not included.)