Still Life with Plums is a vibrant collection of short stories that weaves together the outwardly distant lives of several strangers.
West Virginia native Marie Manilla is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her stories have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Prairie Schooner, Mississippi Review, Calyx Journal, Kestrel, Portland Review, GSU Review, and other journals. She is the author of the upcoming novel Shrapnel, a Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel winner.