Episode 8: Erin Somers reads “Waltz” from Ecotone
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This This This is a podcast featuring new fiction from the current issues of great literary magazines, read by the authors. We celebrate and amplify new short stories that we love, and (we hope) introduce you to your new favorite story.
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Erin Somers’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House Open Bar, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, McSweeney’s, The Cincinnati Review, and many other publications. She holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire and was a 2016 NYC Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow and a 2016 Millay Colony resident. She lives in Beacon, New York, with her husband and daughter. Stay Up with Hugo Best is her first novel.
Ecotone’s mission is to publish and promote the best place-based work being written today. Founded at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2005, the award-winning magazine features writing and art that reimagine place, and our authors interpret this charge expansively. An ecotone is a transition zone between two adjacent ecological communities, containing the characteristic species of each. It is therefore a place of danger or opportunity, a testing ground. The magazine explores the ecotones between landscapes, literary genres, scientific and artistic disciplines, modes of thought.
Author photo by Nina Suben; Magazine cover art is Pink Gets Hot (oil on canvas) by Denise Stewart-Sanabria.