Dana Green

2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize Winners & Finalists

We said that we'd pick two, but went ahead and picked four instead. Also: calling up first-time authors at home? There is just no better part of this job. Meet the winners and read excerpts: Steven Dunn’s novel Potted Meat, Dana Green’s fiction collection Sometimes the Air in the Room Goes Missing, Amy King’s poetry collection The Missing Museum, and Kim Parko’s novel The Grotesque Child.

Dana Green, Sometimes the Air in the Room Goes Missing

Co-winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, Dana Green’s debut collection of stories, Sometimes the Air in the Room Goes Missing, explores how storytelling changes with each iteration; featuring mutated sheep that can herd themselves into watercolors, and a pregnant woman whose water breaks every day for nine months.

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