Competition judge Anne Barngrover says "I was struck from the first sentence by the crystalline narrative voice--sometimes uncanny, sometimes weird, but always precise, unflinching, and painfully self-aware--and the experimentation with form as a way to dig deeper and question ideas of religion, family, place, community, masculinity, death, and the self.
I wholeheartedly recommend Baptizing the Dead and Other Jobs.".
These essays, and their narrator, wouldn\'t shake from me after I read them.
Competition judge Anne Barngrover says "I was struck from the first sentence by the crystalline narrative voice--sometimes uncanny, sometimes weird, but always precise, unflinching, and painfully self-aware--and the experimentation with form as a way to dig deeper and question ideas of religion, family, place, community, masculinity, death, and the self
