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Tenth collection of fiction from an established and well-connected flash fiction author Meg is a literary darling with friends and connections across the lit fic spectrum. She's anticipating blurbs from Charmaine Wilkerson and Bobbie Ann Mason, among others, and is planning a New England tour in late September / early October with author Jeff Friedman Interviews and features pitched to Meg's personal connections at JMWW, CRAFT, and The Rumpus Outreach and ARC mailing to publications that have published Meg's work and those that have previously covered her: American Book Review, New Pages, The Rumpus, SmokeLong Quarterly, Bloom, Coal Hill Review, New England Review, Washington Square Review, McSweeneys, Passages North, Electric Literature, Best Small Fictions, Flash Fiction International, and Mslexia Magazine, where she's a regular contributor Outreach and ARC mailing to US indies, with an emphasis on Meg's home state of Pennsylvania Award push, including the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Foreword Indies Books Awards, Saboteur Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, The Story Prize, and others Mass galley mailing E-ARCs available on Edelweiss

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“Brilliant. Dazzling. The stories in First Law of Holes embody disjunction at its finest and most startling. And always, always deliver each story with a generous serving of heat and heart. It is a Meg Pokrass collection to return to again and again and again.” —Pamela Painter, author of Fabrications: New and Selected Stories “First Law of Holes feels like an entire universe of characters and experiences. Infinite, expanding and dotted with stars.” —Charmaine Wilkerson, author of Black Cake   “To enter the portals of Pokrassland is to go on a magical journey: here there are sex-charged buffalo men and melancholic women who fear six-foot spiders and fall in love with their therapists. It’s a place where people make bald statements and odd connections, where there are strange animals, purple stars and ‘a deep-ruby moon.’ Unpredictable, funny and charming, the world Meg Pokrass builds is a location readers will enter gladly and, mesmerised, they will most definitely want to stay.” —Nuala O’Connor, author of Nora and Seaborne   “The people in these stories need Meg Pokrass. Their lives are tough but her imagination is the fire-lasso that can save them, save us. Here, strange and normal go hand-in-hand, a marriage that explains nothing but makes so much clear.” —Bob Hicok, author of Water Look Away

“The people in these stories need Meg Pokrass. Their lives are tough but her imagination is the fire-lasso that can save them, save us.” –Bob Hicok, author of Elegy Owed and Sex & Love “The nuanced tonal complexity, which can go from the whimsical to a darker irony in the turn of a phrase, has been a signature feature in the work of Meg Pokrass.” —Stuart Dybek, author of Ecstatic Cahoots “In the universe of Pokrass’s fictions, planets are gloriously misaligned, stars and suns trail love of desperate sadness, black holes serve up dogs, spiders, cats, and galaxies explode everything we thought we know about the human heart.” —Pamela Painter, author of Fabrications “To enter the portals of Pokrassland is to go on a magical journey: here there are sex-charged buffalo men and melancholic women who fear six-foot spiders and fall in love with their therapists. It’s a place where people make bald statements and odd connections, where there are strange animals, purple stars and ‘a deep-ruby moon.’ Unpredictable, funny and charming, the world Meg Pokrass is a land that readers will enter gladly and, mesmerised, they will most definitely want to stay.” —Nuala O’Connor, author of Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce

"""The people in these stories need Meg Pokrass. Their lives are tough but her imagination is the fire-lasso that can save them, save us."" -Bob Hicok, author of Elegy Owed and Sex & Love ""The nuanced tonal complexity, which can go from the whimsical to a darker irony in the turn of a phrase, has been a signature feature in the work of Meg Pokrass."" --Stuart Dybek, author of Ecsatic Cahoots ""In the universe of Pokrass's fictions, planets are gloriously misaligned, stars and suns trail love of desperate sadness, black holes serve up dogs, spiders, cats, and galaxies explode everything we thought we know about the human heart."" --Pamela Painter, author of Fabrications ""To enter the portals of Pokrassland is to go on a magical journey: here there are sex-charged buffalo men and melancholic women who fear six-foot spiders and fall in love with their therapists. It's a place where people make bald statements and odd connections, where there are strange animals, purple stars and 'a deep-ruby moon.' Unpredictable, funny and charming, the world Meg Pokrass is a land that readers will enter gladly and, mesmerised, they will most definitely want to stay."" --Nuala O'Connor, author of Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce"

Author Information

Meg Pokrass is the author of eight flash fiction collections, two award-winning collections of hybrid prose, and two novellas-in-flash. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, she now lives in Scotland. Her books include Damn Sure Right (Press 53, 2011), The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down (Etruscan Press, 2015), My Very End of the Universe: Five Novellas in Flash and a Study of the Form (Rose Metal Press, 2015), Alligators At Night (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2018), Triple #12 (Ravenna Press, 2019), Alice In Wonderland Syndrome (V. Press, 2020), The Dog Seated Next to Me (Pelekinesis, 2020), The Loss Detector, a novella-in-flash (Bamboo Dart Press, 2021), Spinning to Mars (Blue Light Press, 2021), and co-author of The House of Gran Padano, with Jeff Friedman (Pelekinesis Press, 2022). Forthcoming in 2023 is Disappearing Debutantes (from Outpost 19), co-written with Aimee Parkison.

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