Sylvia Torti is the author of The Scorpion's Tail, a Miguel Marmol Award winner. She holds a Ph.D. in biology and is Adjunct Professor in biology, as well as current Dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah. She completed a BA degree at Earlham College. Born and raised in Ohio to an Argentine parent, she has traveled and studied extensively and is fluent in English, Spanish and Danish. She is the past president of Writers at Work, and lives and writes in Salt Lake City, Utah.
"In this quietly moving second novel, Torti brings together three
unmoored characters seeking meaning through science...the migration
of these characters toward resolution will reward readers willing
to be swept along." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Sylvia Torti's Cages is a thought-provoking novel about the
complexity of birdsong and how it parallels human communication,
related with an ardent narrative voice and a studious tone."
FOREWORD REVIEWS
"This is a masterful book. Riveting and heartbreaking, CAGES is a
tale in which curiosity and cruelty twine tight. In this
exquisitely researched work of fiction, Sylvia Torti explores sex
and science, memory and forgetting, and how, in laboratory resear"
SY MONTGOMERY author of The Soul of an Octopus, finalist for The
National Book Award.
"Tori's writing offers rich enjoyment for birders and photographers
who hang around birders. Scientists will get a kick out of a story
about doing science that doesn't pull many punches for the
nonscientist and digs into thorny ethical territory." MICHAEL
SEDANO La Bloga
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