Illinois Authors

Sharon Solowitz

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Connection to Illinois: Sharon Solowitz lives in the Chicagoland area.

Biography: Solowitz is a fiction editor at ''Another Chicago Magazine'' in Chicago, Illinois. She has published stories in ''Ploughshares'', ''Witness'' and ''Tri-Quarterly'', among others, and has won many fiction prizes, including the Pushcart. An essay of hers is included in the anthology ''Creating Nonfiction''. She teaches fiction at Purdue University.

• Carl Sandburg Prize for Best Book of Fiction in 1997 for ''Blood and Milk'' Midland Authors Award for Best Adult Fiction, 1997 Nominee, National Jewish Book Award, 1997 Daniel Curley Award for short story, Illinois Arts Council, 1996 Pushcart Prize (best

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: btsds@aol.com
Website: http://www.sarabandebooks.org/?page_id=467
Sharon Solowitz on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=sharon+solowitz

Selected Titles

Blood and milk : ISBN: 1889330019 OCLC: 35586829 Sarabande Books, Louisville, Ky. : ©1997. A collection of stories with women protagonists. The story, Mercy, compares the reaction of two women to being raped, one is tormented by the experience, the other forgets it. In Milk, a woman takes a job as a stripper to provide for her children.