Faith Shearin Libri

Winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize "Lost River has the feel of an instant classic." Anthony McGowan, Carnegie Medal Winner. Lost River is the story of the Van Beest family, which inherits a house at the edge of a magical forest where the dead return from the afterlife. When 10-year-old Anne's mother, a midwife, delivers a stillborn baby and her father, a mortician, accidentally brings that infant back to life, the Van Beests find themselves at the center of a drama that raises questions about the relationship between the living and the dead.

Darwin's Daughter takes the advancement of science, the preservation of human morale and the observation of the human condition and places it under a microscope. Shearin's artful word choice and prose phrasing makes her poems come alive. Readers will spend hours upon hours in this collection. Escapes Praise for the seven chimpanzees at the Kansas City Zoo who fashioned a ladder from branches; praise for the eight monkeys in Brazil who used stones to smash open a lock. We need more penguins who slide over thirteen foot walls to plunge into Tokyo Bay . . .

Faith Shearin's latest poetry collection, Telling the Bees, is evidence of an ongoing, important talent. The author of three previous collections of poetry, the most recent, Moving the Piano, was featured on numerous occasions on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac.

Why another literary magazine, when there already are so many? The only answer I can provide is that I don’t think there can ever be too many forums for good fiction and poetry. Especially in the United States, a place brimming with more great writers than at any previous time in its history. I can only hope, as Golden Streetcar concludes its first year in print, that Walt Whitman might take a break from celebrating the mysteries of Eternity long enough to bless this endeavor, and these storytellers, and the worlds they have birthed by putting pen to paper.--Kareem Tayyar, Director, Angels Flight Books