Sybil Baker
Sybil Baker is the author of Talismans (a linked collection) and The Life Plan (a novel). Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including most recently Prime Number, Prairie Schooner, and the Journal for Compressed Arts. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. After living in South Korea for twelve years, she now lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she is an Assistant Professor of English. Her novel Into This World will be published by Engine Books in 2012. Sybil also teaches in the City University of Hong Kong's low residency MFA program.
For more information about Sybil Baker,
- See her home page, which also lists reviews of her works
- See her blog An Ex-expatriate's Musings on Writing, Teaching, and Travel
- Read her flash fiction piece "Agamemnon’s Wife Speaks From Hades" at MatterPress
- Read "Picturing Snakes" at Slow Trains
- Read "Talismans" at Flinders University
- Read the short story "The Place People Play" at 3 a.m. magazine.
- Read her essay "In Defense of Telling" published in Segue online literary journal
- Listen to an interview and reading on the Writers Show with Joan Hetzler
- See Sybil Baker discussing and reading from Talismans at Huffington Post
- Read an interview "10 Questions for Humor Novelist Sybil Baker" at Ask Wendy--The Query Queen
- Read "Something Thin in Her Pocket," review by Jodi Paloni of Baker's collection Talismans at Contrary Magazine
- Read "Women Write Travel – Some Thoughts by Sybil Baker," guest blog posting by Sybil for Women Travel the World
- Read "From West to East, and From East to West," a conversation about writing with novelist Xu Xi at Author Talk
- See the MFA program at City University of Hong Kong
- Visit the C&R Press site for information on Talismans
- See below the video book trailer for The Life Plan
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