About the Author

Micah Perks is the author of the novel We Are Gathered Here. Her stories have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she is the recipient of a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts grant, two fellowships at the Blue Mountain Center for the Arts, and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. Perks lives in Santa Cruz, where she is an associate professor of literature at the University of California.

Reviews

"There is breathtaking beauty in this memoir . . . Micah Perks writes with great sympathy, subtlety, and precision about the explosive paradise of her youth."
—Joanna Scott, author of Make Believe

"Perks' frank and complex account of her bizarre and dangerous childhood is morbidly fascinating." —Booklist