Editor Vicky Lettmann, who writes fiction, essays, and poetry, served as an editor for the literary/arts magazines Speakeasy (the Loft) and Under Construction (North Hennepin Community College). She received an MFA in fiction writing from Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in Twenty-six Minnesota Writers and in Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude. Editor Carol Roan teaches voice and stage presence in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is the author of Clues to American Dance (Starrhill Press, 1993) and Speak Easy: A Guide to Successful Performances, Presentations, Speeches, and Lectures (Starrhill Press, 1995) and writes a column on The Art of Performance for an online zine.
Whether you're 16 or 60 years old, you'll be enchanted by When Last
on the Mountain: The View from Writers over 50, poems, essays, and
stories edited by Vicky Lettmann and Carol Roan...Unlike young
writers who fuel their talent with hopeful dreams of the future,
the 69 contributors write with a conviction that is grounded in a
reality both heartwarming and heart-wrenching. From a poet laureate
and Pulitzer Prize nominee to a social worker and a clergywoman,
the authors have been shaped by the lives they've led.--Chantel
O'Neal, Winston-Salem Monthly Aging is depicted in all its
vibrancy, poignancy, difficulty --and even hilarity --in a new
anthology by writers in their 50s through 90s. The just-published
anthology, When Last on the Mountain: The View from Writers over
50, disproves the cliché of being over the hill at 50. Instead of
that old chestnut, the essays, fiction, and poetry offer unique and
encouraging views of aging.--Marsha Dubrow, from Examiner.com
(Washington, DC) ...A mix that includes work by celebrated and
previously unknown writers tackling rather predictable broad
themes, including family memories, the passage of time and the
close of life. The brave self-acceptance that the editors admire
leads the best of these writers to take that very predictability
and contrast it with surprising details and resilient attitudes
that raise their writings out of the ordinary.--Rosemary Herbert,
Star-Tribune I was impressed beyond expression by the anthology's
opening line from Judith Serin's essay 'Sharing a Room with Your
Sister: ' 'You don't remember anything about this; it's all
stories.' Another of those utterly perfect beginnings, the
anthology's clear strength and most appealing component. Isn't this
precisely how, on some level, we will all end up summing up our
lives: it's all stories.--Sima Rabinowitz, Newpages.com In When
Last on the Mountain, readers can have it all. This anthology
speaks to the full range of human experience with many voices, all
of them having only one thing in common: the writers have lived a
significant measure of years on this earth--at least fifty--and
know how to offer up their lives with honesty, humor, courage and
grace. Who are these writers? In the editors' preface, we learn
that 'older writers sent us 2,100 submissions from across the
country, from Qatar and Canada, from Mexico and Israel, from
Switzerland, England, Japan, Australia, and a small island in the
Pacific.' These writers are not just in their fifties, but cover
the full spectrum of the wisdom years, ranging all the way into the
nineties.--Maril Crabtree, The Best Times
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