Lynn Sloan

Biography

Lynn Sloan is a writer and photographer. Her stories have appeared in Shenandoah and American Literary Review, among other publications, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the author of the novel Principles of Navigation (2015 Fomite). Her fine art photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally. For many years she taught photography at Columbia College Chicago, where she founded the journal Occasional Readings in Photography, and contributed to Afterimage, Art Week, and Exposure. She lives in Evanston, Illinois with her husband.

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Books

Midstream
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 69,080. Language: English. Published: August 23, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
It’s 1974, and America is restless, with the Vietnam War winding to a close, and feminists marching in the streets. Polly Wainwright respects the protesters’ demands for equal pay, but now nearing middle age, won’t risk her security. Her job, picture editor at a prestigious publisher, is too good to lose. Polly is comfortable with her life. Still, she’d once dreamed of making documentary films.
This Far Isn't Far Enough
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 59,120. Language: English. Published: February 20, 2018 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
In this beautifully written collection of fourteen stories, characters seek to reset their lives knocked sideways by failure, betrayal, or chance, only to be ensnared by pasts they can’t escape. Haunting and deeply moving, This Far Isn’t Far Enough demonstrates Lynn Sloan’s penetrating understanding of loss, endurance, and the undefeated spirit.
Principles of Navigation
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 79,900. Language: English. Published: March 21, 2015 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
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In a small town in Indiana, local reporter Alice Becotte wants a baby to fill her heart. But Alice’s husband Rolly, a talented sculptor, harbors ambitions that draw him away from a steady gig at a “backwater” college and unravel the couple’s moorings. Principles of Navigation explores Alice and Rolly’s Jthrough loss, infidelity and heartbreak, guided only by fragile and fleeting glimpses of grace.

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