In the River Province

Lisa Sandlin came to New Mexico from Texas in 1974. She has taught at Wayne State College in Nebraska since 1997, returning summers to Santa Fe. She is the author of two other story collections, The Famous Thing About Death and Message to the Nurse of Dreams.

"Canterbury comes to Chimayo. Sandlin lays claim to a part of the world so infused with beauty it startles people awake, a world where miracles still happen, where the divine isn't taken for granted, where each moment is poised on the knife edge of change. Storytelling at its finest."-Jonis Agee; "A prose poem to New Mexico that will endure to become a classic."-John Nichols"