Our audio series "The Authors Read. We Listen." was originally hatched in a NYC club during BEA back in 2012. It's a fun little series, where authors record themselves reading an excerpt from their own novels, in their own voices, the way their stories were meant to be heard.
Today, Mary Salisbury will be reading an excerpt from her story collection Side Effects of Wanting. Her short
fiction and essays have been published in Fiction Southeast, Whitefish
Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Cutthroat: A Journal of
the Arts, and Cutthroat’s Truth to Power. Her chapbooks, Come What May and Scarlet Rain Boots, were published by Finishing Line
Press, and her poetry has
appeared in Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Spry
Literary Journal, and Wild Roof Journal, and is forthcoming
in The MacGuffin and Michigan Quarterly Review.
Salisbury is an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship recipient and a graduate of
Pacific University’s MFA in writing program. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Click on the soundbar below to hear Mary from her collection:
In Side Effects of Wanting, author Mary Salisbury gathered together the pieces of humanity she saw reflected in the lives around her and distilled them into a poetically written, beautifully curated short story collection. In this debut, small-town stories speak of love and belonging, longing and regret. The people who populate these tales yearn for companionship and comfort—but all too often they must, instead, face the trauma of fractured relationships and the ache of not quite becoming the person they hoped to be.
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