Sonia Gernes is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame where she teaches Creative Writing, American Literature and Gender Studies. She has published one novel, The Way to St. Ives (1982) and three books of poetry: Women at Forty (Notre Dame Press, 1988), Brief Lives (Notre Dame Press, 1982), and The Mutes of Sleepy Eye (1981).

"Sonia Gernes has written an ambitious book: three tales of the traveler-the trip outward always the mirror of the voyage inward, the discovery of the strange country that is finally ourselves. And like all good girls, she saved the best for last." —Alice Friman, Author of Inverted Fire"In the beginning, poetry chronicled the major events of people's lives-hunts, marriages, deaths, and emigrations. Sonia Gernes has returned poetry to its first purpose, with grace and wit. No one can read what she has offered us without being moved and grateful." —Miller Williams, Poet & Critic

Sonia Gernes is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame where she teaches Creative Writing, American Literature and Gender Studies. She has published one novel, The Way to St. Ives (1982) and three books of poetry: Women at Forty (Notre Dame Press, 1988), Brief Lives (Notre Dame Press, 1982), and The Mutes of Sleepy Eye (1981).

"Sonia Gernes has written an ambitious book: three tales of the traveler-the trip outward always the mirror of the voyage inward, the discovery of the strange country that is finally ourselves. And like all good girls, she saved the best for last." —Alice Friman, Author of Inverted Fire"In the beginning, poetry chronicled the major events of people's lives-hunts, marriages, deaths, and emigrations. Sonia Gernes has returned poetry to its first purpose, with grace and wit. No one can read what she has offered us without being moved and grateful." —Miller Williams, Poet & Critic

Sonia Gernes is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame where she teaches Creative Writing, American Literature and Gender Studies. She has published one novel, The Way to St. Ives (1982) and three books of poetry: Women at Forty (Notre Dame Press, 1988), Brief Lives (Notre Dame Press, 1982), and The Mutes of Sleepy Eye (1981).

"Sonia Gernes has written an ambitious book: three tales of the traveler-the trip outward always the mirror of the voyage inward, the discovery of the strange country that is finally ourselves. And like all good girls, she saved the best for last." —Alice Friman, Author of Inverted Fire"In the beginning, poetry chronicled the major events of people's lives-hunts, marriages, deaths, and emigrations. Sonia Gernes has returned poetry to its first purpose, with grace and wit. No one can read what she has offered us without being moved and grateful." —Miller Williams, Poet & Critic