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Ride a Bright and Shining Pony

When Cynthia, a young, low-level writer for a New York history book publisher, takes a bus to Washington, D.C. in August 1963 to spend her two week vacation with her lover, Lester, a newspaper reporter, she looks forward to making love, possibly ... Read More »

'Secret Paintings' on Display

April 19-30

“The Secret Paintings of Elisabeth Stevens” will be shown April 19-30 at Stakenborg Fine Art, 1545 Main St., Sarasota, with an opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday. The paintings are acrylic on paper, “done at night or during rare free Read More »

Author Bio

Elisabeth Stevens

The writer-artist-critic Elisabeth Goss Stevens was born in Rome, NY and now lives and works in Sarasota, FL. She is the author of fifteen books of fiction, poetry and drama, and she also writes film, drama, art and book reviews for newspapers, magazines and the Sarasota internet radio station Radio SRQ.com. Read More »

The Critics Say

Extraordinary ... short stories. Poetry {with} a depth of emotion and simultaneous control {and} a haunting quality that will linger in the mind.
- Josephine Jacobsen, Poet Laureate

The surface lives of her characters are ordered and orderly, but the constant transience of their fears refuses isolation in convenient corners of the mind.
- Dr. Martin Tucker, Editor

The Stevens style ... is vivid, unsettling, spectacularly effective.
- Alison Comey, The Baltimore Sun

Stories ... about the things we know, but rarely have the courage to explore: death, memory, success and failure.
- Mark Moran, Gargoyle

{Stevens} probes the possibilities and realities of violence just beneath the surface of common cordialities {with} a rich and sophisticated language.
- Dr. Nancy Norris, Johns Hopkins University

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