The Carving Circle: Gretchen Heffernan

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What happens when a black artist moves to a small town in 1950’s America?

Jacques Beaumont is a French Haitian artist of Voodoo ancestry with the ability to resurrect the dead through his sculpture.  While living in remote Illinois, he falls in love with tragic Elora Donnelley, the abused wife of the sheriff and ringleader of the areas white supremacy group.   The heartbreaking consequences of their desire send tremors through both the living and the dead.

The Carving Circle is a ghostly love story that interlaces racism, rebirth and art.

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Gretchen Heffernan is a poet, novelist and publisher.  She co-founded Backlash Press and has published in journals such as Agni and Brittle Star.  She is the author of fantasy titles, The Book of Dirt and, forthcoming, The Book of Insects.  Early this year she released her fiction novel The Carving Circle.

She has a degree in Creative Writing and Modern Poetry from Vermont College.  She has completed two Faber Academy writing programs and has been involved with The Poetry School in London.  In September she begins a post doctorate in Creative and Critical Writing from Brighton University.  She is very interested in combining visual and poetic narratives with myth.  She also loves trees and manages ancient woodland in East Sussex, England.  Visit www.gretchenheffernan.com for more information.

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