{"product_id":"in-the-skin-9781950380985","title":"In the Skin","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatricia Traxler is an award-winning poet, essayist, and fiction writer. A two-time Bunting Poetry Fellow at Radcliffe, she also served as Hugo Poet at the University of Montana, Thurber Poet at Ohio State, and as visiting writer at many other universities around the U.S. Her novel, \u003cem\u003eBlood \u003c\/em\u003e(St. Martin's\/Macmillan) was also published in Spanish, German, and Swedish translations, as well as in a UK\/Ireland edition. Her poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eNaming the Fires, \u003c\/em\u003ereceived the 2019 Kansas Book Award in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraxler's short stories have won several awards, including The Writer's Voice of New York City Award for Short Fiction, the Cecil Hackney National Short Story Award, the Georgia State University Short Story Award, and in Ireland, \u003cem\u003eThe Moth Magazine's \u003c\/em\u003e2019 Short Story Prize: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...brings the reader right up close to passion and its loss, loneliness and despair. A very unusual take on a subject we all think we know, but this is fresh and exciting...you want to read it again as soon as it's over.\" --novelist Kit de Waal, Judge of \u003cem\u003eThe Moth\u003c\/em\u003e's 2019 Short Story Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf Traxler's novel, \u003cem\u003eBlood, \u003c\/em\u003enovelist Margot Livesey wrote: \"Seldom have the twin obsessions of love and art been more vividly or intelligently portrayed...What an elegant, suspenseful debut.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eToronto Sun\u003c\/em\u003e wrote, \"Bloody good--a compelling and beautifully written novel.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Boston Phoenix\u003c\/em\u003e: \"Patricia Traxler's brainy thriller probes the rich ways in which this life substance intersects with love, desire, friendship, sex, and spirituality.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Spartan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50376976269586,"sku":"9781950380985","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_af5c0478-eb4a-4689-86ac-5b6bf06cc354.jpg?v=1728612607","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-skin-9781950380985","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}