You Won't Remember This

Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, KATE BLACKWELL is a former journalist. She now writes fiction and teaches writing at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Her stories have appeared in many venues, including Prairie Schooner, New Letters, and The Greensboro Review, as well as in several anthologies. She lives in Washington, D.C.

"These are necessary stories, which often possess a quality of devastating clarity all too infrequent in short fiction. Each is a rare entree into the ordinary everyday world without the added special effects of all-consuming tragedy. This collection is prime proof that there is nothing, nothing like a collection of short stories to offer an almost Cubist perspective on the way women live." - Cynthia Shearer "You most definitely WILL remember this extraordinary collection. All of Blackwell's finely crafted stories move as easily as an overheard conversation about what is too often hushed in the human heart." - Robert Bausch "In these remarkably intelligent and quirky stories Kate Blackwell sweeps the reader into a tableau as vivid as a Dutch painting, both startling and alive. These are harshly honest and generous stories embroidered with humor." - Patricia Griffith "Throughout this fine first collection, there is a fascinating tension between limpid prose and incisive truth. Kate Blackwell tends to deal with secrets - an unfulfilled desire, a denied knowledge, a hidden love. She writes with especial power and insight about the parts of themselves women give up - or bury - when they marry." - Joyce Johnson"