Here's some exciting news on the international front: an Aegis & Owl art-book edition of The Selected Short Stories of Sarah A. Chrisman has been ordered for shipment to Japan! Special thanks go out to Akemi in Ishikawa, for her purchase of this beautiful work of art. The blue-green shot-silk on the spine was hand-woven in Thailand, and the textured endpapers are from India, so this is quite the international edition! Happy reading, Akemi!
"...Something seemed to pass through the crowd after security had been cleared and we moved over the Niju-bashi, the special bridge which marked the entrance to the palace grounds which only ever felt the feet of ordinary mortals on this and one other day every year. A hush rippled through the crowd, as though we were entering a great cathedral open to the sky, and the excitement grew..." -selection from "The Samurai" excerpted from The Selected Short Stories of Sarah A. Chrisman
"...The arboretum was a vast, sprawling swath of green within the city. Elsewhere, buildings vied aggressively for space in a city whose edifices were built practically on top of each other, but here there was open space. There was flora enough to get lost in within the arboretum's tremendous expanse... It was to this swampy interstice that Mike now turned his wheels, to the place where the clear waters ran dark, and shadowy figures lurked in the rushes..."
Sarah Chrisman was born in Renton, Washington -near Seattle. Her birthday is March 12, 1980, and sometimes she wishes it were a century earlier. She has visited fourteen countries, but has never had a driver's license, nor a cell phone. She has two degrees from the University of Washington: one in French, the other in International Studies.