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Born in 1966, Timothy A. Westmoreland taught astronomy at the University of Texas at Arlington before completing his M.F.A. at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has won writing scholarships to Bennington, Bread Loaf, and Mount Holyoke. His fiction has appeared in Indiana Review, Quarterly West, and Best New American Voices 2001.

From a new voice in American fiction come tales of men whose language is grief, whose off-center lives expose the difficulty of being whole in a world they cannot understand.

Set in the spare, unforgiving landscapes of rural New England and rural Texas, Timothy Westmoreland's stories explore the reality of life among the ill and the dying, the disadvantaged and those unfit for life except in the margins. They examine the individual moment, those times when people create fiction in their lives just to survive, soothing the ache that permeates their being. Dark and funny, these stories tell wrenching truths about being men and being whole. Reminiscent of the work of Russell Banks, they announce a major new writer of immense talent.

Los Angeles Times - Mark Rozzo

Westmoreland's stories have momentum and heft; they're slices of life that, before our eyes, evolve in to stirring American landscapes.