MFA Programs in Writing, English
|Creative Writing; Fiction; Contemporary Literature|
|Gold Medal, Commonwealth Club of California|
Bellevue Literary Press, 2011
“Widow is a hymn to reverence, simultaneously heartbroken and celebratory. Michelle Latiolais has given us the rarest item, a splendidly articulated masterpiece.”
“In this luminous collection of stories, the gifted Michelle Latiolais writes of loss in all its surprising manifestations. Widow is a devastation and a wonder.”
“There is something mysterious about this book, as there always is in the writing that matters most. It eludes explanation. It illumines terrifying realities. Only because these pages seem nakedly willing to take the imprint of every emotion, no matter how ugly, do they possess this great beauty.”
A Proper Knowledge
Bellevue Literary Press, 2008
“In prose shimmering with intelligence and compassion, Michelle Latiolais dissects the essentials of everyday life to find the heartbeat within.”
"Autism and grief acquire powerful and enigmatic reality as the reader turns the pages of A Proper Knowledge. To invoke one of its own metaphors, this novel is a refuge, not because it elides trauma or sorrow, but because it confronts them with gallant and unswerving clarity. A thousand things are noticed in this novel that you won't have seen in fiction before. Don't be fooled: for all the delicacy of its language this is a work of burning ferocity."
"An elegant and engaging novel of beauty and pain, and how one will often reveal the other. Precise, insightful, lovely."
"The novel counts-in elegant and sometimes elegiac prose-the shadowy and elusive opportunities for redemption."
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990
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