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Despite the haunting beauty of Dickinson\u2019s language, naked is possibly the best way to describe her prose. Naked emotion. Naked observation. The warts and the pimples of living presented with the same intensity and honesty as the finely curved hips and thick auburn hair that give life its pleasure. No one writes like Stephanie Dickinson, except maybe God.\"<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"sm_text\" style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Alice Jurish<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"sm_text\" style=\"text-align: left\">\"The great state of Iowa has raised many chickens, but Stephanie Dickinson sure as rain isn\u2019t one of them. Bravely tackling the complex nature of the mother-daughter relationship through all of its peaks and valleys, Dickinson\u2019s memorable prose will by turns amuse you, wrench your heart, and curl your toes. Dickinson provides us with a panoply of object lessons; most notably, how, at the moments that really count, rebelliousness turns to tenderness and we tightly clutch our familial cords and connections, even while butting heads with them. In <em>Girl Behind the Door<\/em>, we learn that the landscape from which this fiercely passionate writer hails possesses the best soil on earth, and Stephanie Dickinson has dug deeply into the muck and mire to unearth her past\u2014and, in doing so, ours.\"<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"sm_text\" style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Cindy Hochman, author of\u00a0<em>Habeas Corpus<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"sm_text\" style=\"text-align: left\">\"As a teenager she decided to fly. Her mother\u2019s old Rambler with her at the wheel crested the hill, with grave consequences. In Girl Behind the Door, Stephanie Dickinson flies on every page. What a book! A delicious memoir, or deathwatch, in which death dies. Florence, her mother, lives. Iowa lives, all \u201cthe gone ones.\u201d We know her childhood better than we know our own, the Bureshes and Teleckys better than our own relatives. A read with moist eyes. Unflagging emotion and exquisite clarity, incredible candor and perspicacity, her signature poetry. It is brave, naked as her dementia mother. Our eyes are wet and our hearts are full. It is a farewell that makes you hungry for life. She heaps our plates.\"<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"sm_text\" style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Jill Hoffman, author of\u00a0<em>Jilted<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>No Other Way<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-708\" src=\"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Stephanie-Dickinson-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Dickinson\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><strong>Stephanie Dickinson<\/strong> raised on an Iowa farm, has lived in Oregon, Texas, Louisiana and now New York City, a state unto itself. Her novel\u00a0<em>Half Girl<\/em>\u00a0is published by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spuytenduyvil.net\/\" target=\"_new\">Spuyten Duyvil<\/a>\u00a0as well as the novella\u00a0<em>Lust Series<\/em>. Her work has appeared in many journals most recently<em>\u00a0Fjords, Nimrod, Hotel Amerika, Weber Studies, Tusculum Review, Lit n Image, and WIP Works In Progress<\/em>. Her story \u201cA Lynching in Stereoscope\u201d was reprinted in\u00a0<em>Best American Nonrequired Reading<\/em>\u00a0and \u201cDalloway and Lucky Seven\u201d and \u201cLove City\u201d in\u00a0<em>New Stories from the South<\/em>. She is the winner of\u00a0<em>New Delta Review\u2019s<\/em>\u00a02011 Matt Clark Fiction prize judged by Susan Straight, and a finalist in the 2012 Starcerone Book Prize for Innovative Fiction. <em>Heat:<\/em>\u00a0<em>An Interview with Jean Seberg<\/em>\u00a0will be published by\u00a0<em>New Michigan Press<\/em>\u00a0in its 2013 chapbook series. 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