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Lost in Words
Lost in Words is Ann Calandro’s debut collection of short fiction.
Author: Ann Calandro
Paperback, 2025, 168 pages
ISBN: 9781947175709
Ann Calandro is a writer, mixed media collage artist, and classical piano student. For many years she worked as a copyeditor in medical publishing, medical communications, and pharmaceutical advertising. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have been published in literary journals and anthologies. Her artwork has appeared in juried exhibits and literary journals. Shanti Arts Press published three children’s books that she wrote and illustrated. Calandro, who was born and raised in New York City, received a master’s degree in English from Washington University in St Louis. See artwork at ann-calandro.pixels.com
Ann Calandro’s stories glide from brief dreamlike appreciations of friendships to longer narratives about families. Her sentences are perfection, whether describing fries “crisp on the outside and meltingly soft within” or a survey designed to tell us where we can live in a divided continent. I’m grateful for these reports from a heart “pinioned at the border of memory and desire.”
—Carol Sklenicka, author of Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer and Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life
“Stories of memorable relationships, magical moments, and surprising endings you will never forget. Ann Calandro is a master story teller.”
—Ilene Beckerman, author of Love, Loss, and What I Wore
“Ann Calandro‘s stories lead us from the comfort of realistic details to compelling realms of fantasy.”
—Debra Ratner, author of short stories in The Yale Review, Redbook, and other journals
PUBLISHING SCHEDULE
Serving House Books is currently considering short story collections. Fee-free submissions are open from July 1 until September 1 at Submittable.
We have other excellent books being prepared for release. Each work will be announced when publication is pending.