Erica Olsen '84 to release short story collection in the fall
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 9:05AM 
Recapture is a collection of short fiction set in an American West that is both strange and familiar. The Utah Canyons WildMall gives tourists exactly what they want. An archivist preserves a rare map of a vanished Lake Tahoe. The Grand Canyon can only be visited in replica form. These stories—by turns lyrical, deadpan, surreal—blur the line between the natural world and the world we make. What is recaptured includes archaeology and history, love and loneliness, authenticity and self. Stories in the collection have been published in Santa Monica Review, ZYZZYVA, Terrain, and other magazines.
Erica now calls southeast Utah home. Her work has received awards including the 2011 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose (for “Grand Canyon II,” included in this book), a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and residencies at Ucross and the Center for Land Use Interpretation. She has worked most recently as an archivist at Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum in Blanding, Utah, and a museum technician at the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado.
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The publisher is Torrey House http://torreyhouse.com/
Full details closer to pub date.