Valerie Laken is the Writer-in-Residence at Carthage, where she teaches creative writing and other English courses. She holds an MA in Russian Literature and an MFA in Creative
Writing from the University of Michigan. Her short stories have been
published in such journals as Ploughshares, Antioch Review, Meridian,
Michigan Quarterly Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and have been
honored with a Pushcart Prize, a Missouri Review Editors' Prize, and two
Hopwood Awards. Her first novel, Dream House, will be published by
HarperCollins in January 2008, to be followed a year later by her short
story collection, Separate Kingdoms. |
BOOKS
Dream House. To be published by HarperCollins early in 2008.
Separate Kingdoms. To be published by HarperCollins in 2009.
STORIES
"God of Fire." Michigan Quarterly Review, 46, 1 (Winter 2007), 111-27.
© 2007 by Valerie Laken.
"Spectators." Ploughshares, Issue #99 (Spring 2006), 75-92.
"Covenant." Antioch Review, 63, 1 (Winter 2005), 79-89.
"Family Planning." Missouri Review, 27, 1 (2004), 31-45.
"Before Long." Ploughshares, Issue #89 (Winter 2002-03), 85-100.
BOOK REVIEWS
A daughter's story of life with a war-scarred father (review of Falling Through the Earth by Danielle Trussoni). Chicago Tribune, 26 March 2006, p. 3.
Abstract only.
A moving, frustrating coming-of-age story about a sensitive teen isolated by her own insecurities (review of Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld).
Chicago Tribune, 30 January 2005, p. 4.
Abstract only.
The stories listed here are available in the Hedberg Library in paper or electronic format.
To access them from off campus computers, current Carthage students, staff, and faculty need to install a proxy. Others are welcome to read the material in the library.
Compiled by Tina Eger
10 February 2007 |
