From Here by Jen Michalski

Releases November 2013.

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

Jen Michalski's first collection of fiction, Close Encounters, is available from So New (2007) and her collection of novellas is forthcoming from  Dzanc   (2013). Her novella May-September (2010) was published by Press 53 as part of the Press 53 Open Awards. She also is the editor of the anthology City Sages: Baltimore (CityLit Press 2010), which won a 2010 "Best of Baltimore" award from Baltimore Magazine. She is the founding editor of the literary quarterly jmww, and is co-host of the monthly reading series, The 510 Readings in Baltimore.

About the Collection:
The twelve stories in From Here explore the dislocations and intersections of people searching, running away, staying put. Their physical and emotional landscapes run the gamut, but in the end, they’re all searching for a place to call home.