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A Healing Exploration: Micah Perks’s True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape

November 28th, 2018

Stories are the miracle, and the escape, promised by the book’s title.

Susan Jackson Rodgers is the author of a novel, This Must Be the Place, and two story collections, The Trouble With You Is and Ex-Boyfriend on Aisle 6. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as New England Review, North American Review, Glimmer Train, Beloit Fiction Journal, Colorado Review, Quick Fiction, Prairie Schooner, and Brevity. She is the past recipient of two Kansas Arts Commission Fellowships and two Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, and winner of the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon and teaches creative writing and literature at Oregon State University.