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Melissa Stephenson's Driven does the hard and wonderful work of exhuming the beauty from which disconnection and heartbreak is woven. Perhaps no life, she reminds us, is ever yet fully lived; and there's a beauty in that, too. --Rick Bass, author of For a Little While Driven is written with a poet's ear and a traveler's grit, and it will be a comfort to anyone who has watched a love one self-destruct, or struggled with the complicated identity of little sister. Melissa Stephenson shines a light on her brother's dark path and ends up finding a road of her own. --Sarah Hepola, author of Blackout Not all writers are survivors and not all survivors are writers but Melissa Stephenson is both and goddamn is she good. Driven is a book you will want to hold tight against your heart, to take with you everywhere you go. Piercing and beautiful. --Domenica Ruta, author of With or Without You With a searing honesty, Melissa Stephenson examines the decisions of her life and the often unexpected consequence. Driven races through time like one of the many automobiles she drives, repairs, and loves. Ultimately, she loves literature more, and this book is the grand and glorious result. --Chris Offutt, author of Country Dar Driven is written with a poet's ear and a traveler's grit, and it will be a comfort to anyone who has watched a love one self-destruct, or struggled with the complicated identity of little sister. Melissa Stephenson shines a light on her brother's dark path and ends up finding a road of her own. --Sarah Hepola, author of Blackout Not all writers are survivors and not all survivors are writers but Melissa Stephenson is both and goddamn is she good. Driven is a book you will want to hold tight against your heart, to take with you everywhere you go. Piercing and beautiful. --Domenica Ruta, author of With or Without You With a searing honesty, Melissa Stephenson examines the decisions of her life and the often unexpected consequence. Driven races through time like one of the many automobiles she drives, repairs, and loves. Ultimately, she loves literature more, and this book is the grand and glorious result. --Chris Offutt, author of Country Dark Not all writers are survivors and not all survivors are writers but Melissa Stephenson is both and goddamn is she good. Driven is a book you will want to hold tight against your heart, to take with you everywhere you go. Piercing and beautiful. --Domenica Ruta, author of With or Without You With a searing honesty, Melissa Stephenson examines the decisions of her life and the often unexpected consequence. Driven races through time like one of the many automobiles she drives, repairs, and loves. Ultimately, she loves literature more, and this book is the grand and glorious result. --Chris Offutt, author of Country Dark

Not all writers are survivors and not all survivors are writers but Melissa Stephenson is both and goddamn is she good. Driven is a book you will want to hold tight against your heart, to take with you everywhere you go. Piercing and beautiful. --Domenica Ruta, author of With or Without You With a searing honesty, Melissa Stephenson examines the decisions of her life and the often unexpected consequence. Driven races through time like one of the many automobiles she drives, repairs, and loves. Ultimately, she loves literature more, and this book is the grand and glorious result. --Chris Offutt, author of Country Dark

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MELISSA STEPHENSON earned her BA in English from the University of Montana and her MFA in fiction from Texas State University. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the Rumpus, the Washington Post, ZYZZYVA, and Fourth Genre. Driven is her first book. She lives in Missoula, Montana, with her two kids.

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