Bob Sommer

Author's Bio

My new novel, A Great Fullness, is forthcoming from Aqueous Books in 2013. Currently at work on a memoir about my late son Francis and our experience as a military family during the past decade of war. An excerpt appears in the Whirlybird Anthology of Kansas City Writers (2012).

Publications and Prizes

Books:

A Great Fullness (Aqueous Books, 2013), Where the Wind Blew (a novel) (The Wessex Collective, 2008)

Journals:

Chronogram Magazine, Prick of the Spindle

Prizes:

First Place: 2012 Kansas Authors Literary Club Contest, Memoir Category. Second Place: 2012 Kansas Writers Association Prose & Poetry Contest, Adult Division-Nonfiction. Honorable Mention: 2012 Kansas Voices Literary Contest, Short Story Category

Bob Sommer Resume

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

The Endless Search by David Ray, Selected Poems by Seamus Heaney, Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo, Will Work for Peace: New Political Poems by Brett Axel, ed., Kodak Elegy by William Merrill Decker

Favorite Books:

The Odyssey

Favorite Authors:

Many

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Listing last updated: April 25, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

New York, NY

Raised in:

Hyde Park, NY

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