Garfinkle, Gwynne
Entry updated 7 October 2024. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US poet and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Memo from the Universe" in Tales of Magic Realism by Women: Dreams in a Minor Key (anth 1991) edited by Susanna J Sturgis. A representative selection from her output has been assembled as Sinking, Singing: Short Fiction (coll 2024); it reprints a strong Feminist novelette, A Wild Patience (2020 ebook), an amused, sure-footed recounting of the revolt of a group of Robot wives. Typical of her work in general, the setting inexplicitly evokes an undated but seemingly Near Future suburban hell.
In Garfinkle's first novel, Can't Find My Way Home (2021), the victim of a protest bomb blast haunts the protagonist, using the event as a Jonbar Point to describe the various futures that might have been experienced. [JC]
Gwynne Garfinkle
born Los Angeles, California
works
- Can't Find My Way Home (Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Books, 2021) [pb/]
collections, stories, poetry
- People Change (Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Books, 2018) [coll: stories and poetry: in the publisher's Conversation Pieces series: pb/]
- A Wild Patience (no place given: GigaNotoSaurus, 2020) [novelette: ebook: na/]
- Sinking, Singing: Short Fiction (Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Books, 2024) [coll: in the publisher's Conversation Pieces series: pb/Kathryn Wilham]
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