Mia Kirsi Stageberg’s earliest fiction was published in the New Directions annuals, 1960s and 1970s. She has been a researcher, art writer, cloth sculptor, radio documentarist, editor, creative writing teacher, oral historian, and singer in a few bands. Her work includes a published novel; stories, prose poems, and articles have appeared online and in journals and anthologies. She lives in Japantown, San Francisco and is working on another novel.
This tale alternates between an imagined ancient Scandinavia and a present-day narrator yearning toward her ancestors. Multiple viewpoints matter—even a deer's. "Magnificent, filled with allegory and story and lyricism." —Barbara Rose Brooker, author of The Viagra Diaries
A restless traveler meets a startling healer in the North, and both are deeply changed.
"Mia Kirsi Stageberg’s fiction has an intense sensuality like Proust, only edgier, stranger." —Geoff Rips, author of award-winning novel The Truth