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EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR

a short fiction collection from
Jacqueline Kolosov

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August 2024

EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR
A Short Story Collection
Press Americana | Hollywood Books International
ISBN 9781735360195

218 pages
6 x 9
$20.00

In Exit, Pursued by a Bear, art – particularly the visual arts – is a unifying and simultaneously expansive theme, from "Intention's" grieving portraitist to the artists and female caregivers who wander the paths of "Solstice in the Jardin du Luxembourg." Winner of Prize Americana, these stories from Jacqueline Kolosov shore up against the inevitability of loss, illness, death, addiction, ruptures in intimacy – a testament to "the art that doth mend nature" from The Winter's Tale. If the bear of that late Shakespearean romance both upends and galvanizes the plot, then the horses, dogs, and ravens of this story collection act as companions, teachers, and even spirit guides to the human beings, each and every one bruised and damaged – but also shining.

REVIEWS

From Liza Wieland: In these eleven stories, Jacqueline Kolosov gives us the lives of (mostly) women living (mostly) in West Texas, thoughtful, intelligent, artistic women grappling with the joys and disappointments of motherhood and marriage, their longing to be elsewhere, to return to romantic or exotic pasts. These are all women I would like to keep company with, and so I feel honored to know their stories, listen in on their conversations. The writing is as engaging as the characters, elegant but not strained, a perfect braiding of the quotidian dusty world of the present and the dreamlike, idyllic past.

From Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum: How rare it is to find a collection that so accurately reflects the tiny cuts, the intense vulnerabilities, the long-held griefs and sharply felt pleasures of love! Jacqueline Kolosov is a master observer of human relationships, and these stories are remarkable for both the clarity of their insights and the precision of their prose.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Chicago, Jacqueline Kolosov spent the first thirty years of life in and around big northern cities, only to find herself in arid, windswept West Texas at the start of the twenty-first century. Thanks to her daughter, she soon fell in love with horses and the open expanse of a country defined by sky. A member of the creative writing faculty at Texas Tech University, she has published three collections of poetry including the ekphrastically-driven Modigliani's Muse. A fourth, Talons, Wings, is forthcoming from Salmon in 2025. Also an essayist and a practitioner of hybrid forms, her collection of lyric essays Motherhood, and the Places Between was selected by W. Ralph Eubanks for Stillhouse Press's annual prize. She has published several YA/crossover novels including two set in Elizabethan England: The Red Queen’s Daughter and A Sweet Disorder (Hyperion/Disney). Jacqueline co-edited three anthologies of contemporary writing including Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Investigation of Eight Hybrid Literary Genres, 2015 Winner of Foreword's IndieFab Award for Nonfiction. She has been awarded a Literary Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts along with residencies at the Banff Centre and an artist’s house in Amagansett. Active in the field of Art in Community Health, she is an ad hoc cook, lifelong yogi, and passionate horsewoman. She can usually be found out in the elements with horses and her dog.

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