At DL’s Brooklyn Book Festival 2012 Bookend Event tomorrow, Hugh Sheehy and Greg Gerke will be representing in the category of short fiction.
Gerke, a Brooklyn-ite and member of National Book Critics Circle, has published short fiction in a noteworthly list of literary journals. His debut short story collection, There’s Something Wrong with Sven, was published in 2009 by Blaze Vox Books. “There’s Something Wrong with Sven combines imaginative leaps worthy of Italo Calvino and Kurt Vonnegut with tragicomic irreverence of the George Saunders variety,” says The Rumpus.
Our other short fiction reader for the evening is this year’s selection for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly says Sheehy’s debut story collection, The Invisibles, “reveal[s] a wicked new talent.”
Currently a lecturer at Yeshiva College in NYC, Sheehy has taught at Kennesaw State University and Georgia State University and received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama. His stories have also appeared in publications including Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review, and Best American Mystery Stories.
Thanks so much for the great Brooklyn Book Fest, Bookend event last night. It was great fun, and great getting to know some great new writers.