Tricia Bauer

Selected Works

Fiction

Father Flashes
A novel in vignettes, Father Flashes, won the first Catherine Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction. In the book’s foreword, Carole Maso writes “I think of the novel as a form – its elasticity, its capacity to create wonder and terror and beauty.”

Shelterbelt
"Bauer tells a heartfelt and humorous story about a young girl's journey toward self-discovery and the meaning of family." Booklist

Hollywood & Hardwood
"Bauer's prose flexes with the narrative muscle of a veteran author... The real delight here, however, is Bauer's graceful and tender exploration of two people with extraordinary dreams finding happiness in plain, ordinary ways." Publishers Weekly

Boondocking
"The promise of Bauer's quietly acute story collection, Working Women, is movingly realized in this contemporary odyssey of a retired couple who journey with their young grandaughter through America amid upcropping dangers and fears." Kirkus Reviews (starred)

Working Women and Other Stories
"The author's real focus is on the subtle discoveries that shape our ideas about ourselves -- about what we are and what we may become...Ms. Bauer's prose is as unpretentious as most of her characters, but its accumulation of simple, apparently artless detail sometimes leads to surprising depths, abrupt revelations of life's possibilities as well as its pain." The New York Times Book Review

New and Forthcoming

2010 Doctorow Winner

Tricia Bauer, of West Redding, Connecticut, was awarded the first annual FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for her novel Father Flashes. The prize includes publication by FC2, an imprint of University of Alabama Press, and 15,000 dollars. Melanie Rae Thon received special mention for her manuscript The Voice of the River. The judge was Carole Maso.

Through this contest, Fiction Collective Two aims to publish and promote the work of a mid-career writer of fiction deemed too experimental, innovative, or challenging for contemporary commercial presses. Writers with at least three published books of fiction (story collections, novels, or a combination) are eligible for the Doctorow Prize.

Recent and forthcoming publications

"Cruz's New Place" will be featured in the anthology, Blue Christmas, to be published in October 2011.

"Robin" appeared in the summer 2010 issue of Western Humanities Review. This story is the prologue to Tricia's novel-in-progress, The World is Red.

READINGS/SIGNINGS

February 3, 2011, 5:30-7 p.m.
AWP Conference offsite event -
The Big Hunt
1345 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, DC

March 26, 2011 7-8 p.m.
ADI Convention
Toronto

May 5, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
The Mark Twain Library
Redding, CT