Posted by Katie Feifer on 12/18/09 at 12:43:33 PM
R. Clifton
Spargo, founding member of CounterQuo and literary advisor to The Voices and Faces Project, was recently selected as a finalist for the 2009 Flannery O'Connor Award
for Short Fiction for "The Things She Has Stolen From Time to Time,"
an innovative sequence of stories centered on a woman who has lived through
sexual violence. "The Things She Has Stolen From Time to Time" asks
us to understand violence not as a single act but as an enduring event with
long-lasting consequences. Stories from the collection have appeared
in Glimmer Train Stories, SOMA, The Connecticut Review, North
Atlantic Review, and The Kenyon Review (forthcoming). Cliff's
fiction, praised by esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom as "marked for
permanence," serves as a powerful reminder of the moral power inherent in
artful representations of injustice. As the co-creator of our Voices
and Faces Project Testimonial Writing Workshop and a 2010 Leon Milman Memorial
Fellow at the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum, Cliff will continue to
play an important role at The Voices and Faces Project as we expand our
creative collaborations in the new year. To find out more about Cliff, visit his website .