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Karen Salyer McElmurray’s latest essay collection is I Could Name God in Twelve Ways. Other nonfiction includes Voice Lessons, a short collection of lyric essays, and Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother’s Journey, which was an AWP Award Winner for Creative Nonfiction. Her novels are Wanting Radiance, The Motel of the Stars, and Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven, winner of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing. As a fiction writer, she is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the North Carolina Arts Council. Her work in nonfiction has received the Annie Dillard Award for the Essay, the New Southerner Award, The Orison Anthology Award for Creative Nonfiction and the LitSouth Award. She has co-edited, with poet Adrian Blevins, an essay collection called Walk till the Dogs Get Mean.
