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Mary Kuryla's debut novel, Away to Stay...is a wild ride, a story about the search for home that moves at a breakneck speed and takes sudden left turns while remaining remarkably poignant and heartfelt. Kuryla’s prose shines and illuminates and lifts the story up...you can feel the search for home deep in one's bones. Away to Stay is a tense ...
- Freak Weather: Stories
Freak Weather: Stories. Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in...
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“Invasive Species.” Forthcoming in The Magazine of Fantasy...
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- Freak Weather: Stories
Mary Kuryla brings us news of our shared precarity, our brutal and borrowed world. Noy Holland, author of Bird “Away to Stay is a tense, propulsive, and thrillingly subjective coming-of-age story, with gorgeous prose and slippery characters that will stick with you.” J. Ryan Stradal, author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota
Mary Kuryla is a fiction writer, screenwriter and director, professor, and journalist. Her collection Freak Weather Stories was selected by Amy Hempel for the AWP’s Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and published by Massachusetts Press in fall of 2017. Her stories have received The Pushcart Prize, as well as the Glimmer Train Very Short ...
Dec 6, 2017 · In her short stories, a novel-in-progress and her films, Mary Kuryla conjures arresting portraits of lonely, vexing, isolated and frequently damaged characters who, despite their precarity and eclectic impairments, resonate fully, becoming irresistible in their refusal to acquiesce or accommodate. Kuryla’s writing has been published in many ...
Feb 18, 2022 · Mary Kuryla brings us news of our shared precarity, our brutal and borrowed world."--Noy Holland, author of Bird " Away to Stay is a tense, propulsive, and thrillingly subjective coming-of-age story, with gorgeous prose and slippery characters that will stick with you."--J. Ryan Stradal, author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota "Kuryla has an ...
- Mary Kuryla
Feb 16, 2022 · Mary Kuryla. Mary Kuryla is the author of the novel Away to Stay and the short story collection Freak Weather, which was selected by Amy Hempel for the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories have received a Pushcart Prize and the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Prize and have appeared in The Paris Review, Conjunctions, Pleiades, Agni ...
