Set in an unnamed country built on landfill -- situated sometime in the past, present, or future -- Kiss Me, Stranger is the story of one woman's attempts to keep her family together while a civil war rages around her. Featuring illustrations by the author, Kiss Me, Stranger is a comical and tragic commentary on war, violence, and consumerism.
Ron Tanner's awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal, a Pushcart Prize, a New Letters Award, a Best of the Web Award, and many others. He has won fellowships from the Copernicus Society, Sewanee Writers Conference, and the National Park Service, to name a few, and his stories and essays have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including The Iowa Review, West Branch, and the Quarterly. His first collection of stories, A Bed of Nails, won both the G.S. Sharat Chandra award and the Towson Prize for Literature. Janet Burroway called it "fabulously imaginative, experimental, witty, often breathtaking."
Ron and his wife, Jill, live in a former fraternity house that they saved from ruin and renovated to its former Victorian glory. The house was featured in This Old House magazine. Ron has written about this adventure in his latest book, From Animal House to Our House: A Love Story , forthcoming from Academy Chicago Publishers. See more at http://Houselove.org.
Ron teaches writing at Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland, and directs the Marshall Islands Story Project (http://mistories.org), which aims to preserve the story-telling culture of the Marshallese people.
For more visit Ron at http://ronaldtanner.com.
