This Time, While We're Awake by Heather Fowler

Releases May 2013.

Press kit forthcoming. Pre-Orders [coming soon] will be made available on the Publications & Store page.

Heather Fowler is the author of Suspended Heart (Aqueous Books, Dec. 2010) and People with Holes (Pink Narcissus Press, forthcoming 2012). She  received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University. Her work has been published online and in print in the US, England, Australia, and India, and appeared in such venues as PANK, Night Train, storyglossia, Surreal South, JMWW, Prick of the Spindle, Short Story America, and others, as well as having been nominated for both the storySouth Million Writers Award and Sundress Publications Best of the Net. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is Poetry Editor at Corium Magazine and a Fiction Editor for the international refereed journal, Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures & Societies (USA).  Please visit her website at www.heatherfowlerwrites.com

About the Collection:
Fowler's new collection, This Time, While We're Awake, welcomes you to the worlds of egregious dystopias—environments where tornadoes come one after another as neighbors spar, drugged breeders make babies in the near-future for the sterile rich, humans are sacrificed by contract to aliens who protect them, and the government provides zombie murder buses for insurgents while testing middle-class children, in advance, to fill the needs of militants and industry. In this collection, Fowler examines what it means to be fair and humane in the surreal landscapes where the ruling factions are neither of these things.  Come and get your Practice Baby, if you'd like to try parenting.  Take an injection to experience love without a partner.  This collection showcases not only Fowler's trademark heart and humor, but also a darker dimension of commentary similar to Bradbury or The Twilight Zone.  Selected stories in this volume have been published internationally and online.