About A Heaven of Their Choosing by Joann Smith
A Heaven of Their Choosing is a collection of thirteen stories that explore the complexities and messiness of faith, marriage, illness, and grief. A widow plans her husband’s funeral feeling as much resentment towards him as grief. A mother believes her young son has the DNA of a long-dead ex-boyfriend. A woman becomes obsessed with a drifter who stands in the same spot every day in her neighborhood. A couple grieving a series of miscarriages set out to adopt in China, only to get pregnant again. These are stories of ordinary people finding the extraordinary in their lives and allowing themselves to be hopeful.
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Author Bio:
A collection of my short stories titled “A Heaven of Their Choosing” was published by 7.13 Books in September 2021.
I have had stories published in The Halcyone Literary Review, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Two Hawks Quarterly, Emerald Coast Review, The Examined Life Journal, Whitefish Journal, Clockhouse journal; servinghouse journal; Chagrin River Review, New York Stories, Literal Latte, Best of Writers at Work, Alternate Bridges, Image: A Journal of Art and Religion, So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art, The Roanoke Review, The Greensboro Review, and The Texas Journal of Women and the Law. My story “Tuesday Night at the Shop and Shoot” was anthologized in Lock and Load: Armed Fiction, University of New Mexico Press; another story was selected by the editors of Best American Short Stories 2000 as one of the one hundred notable stories of the year.
My novel of historical fiction is titled When I Was Boudicca and is available on Amazon.
I live and write in the Bronx.