name: Kerry Langan
genres: Contemporary, Nonfiction, Fiction
influences: Heather Tosteson, Joe David Bellamy, Roxana Robinson, John Updike
avg_rating: 4.91
ratings_count: 22
about: Kerry Langan was born in Buffalo, New York and completed her undergraduate and graduate education there. She had a career as an academic librarian before becoming a fiction writer. Prior to the publication of her books, Only Beautiful &amp; Other Stories , Live Your Life &amp; Other Stories, and My Name Is Your Name &amp; Other Stories,her short fiction had appeared in more than 40 literary journals published in the United States, Canada, and Asia. Her fiction has been anthologized in: Families: The Frontline of Pluralism, Double Lives, Reinvention, And Those We Leave Behind, XX Eccentric: Stories About the Eccentricities of Women, and Solace In So Many Words. She is the co-editor of the Wising Up Press anthology: Shifting Balance Sheets: Women's Stori Kerry Langan was born in Buffalo, New York and completed her undergraduate and graduate education there. She had a career as an academic librarian before becoming a fiction writer. Prior to the publication of her books, Only Beautiful &amp; Other Stories , Live Your Life &amp; Other Stories, and My Name Is Your Name &amp; Other Stories,her short fiction had appeared in more than 40 literary journals published in the United States, Canada, and Asia. Her fiction has been anthologized in: Families: The Frontline of Pluralism, Double Lives, Reinvention, And Those We Leave Behind, XX Eccentric: Stories About the Eccentricities of Women, and Solace In So Many Words. She is the co-editor of the Wising Up Press anthology: Shifting Balance Sheets: Women's Stories of Naturalized Citizenship &amp; Cultural Attachment. Additional non-fiction has appeared in the journal, Working Mother. ...more