He is also the recipient of a Martin Dibner Fellowship from the Maine Community Foundation. His writing has appeared in Natural Bridge and was awarded finalist status in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers.
JAMES CHARLESWORTH grew up eighty miles east of Pittsburgh and attended Penn State University and Emerson College in Boston, where he currently lives. A powerful, page-turning coming-of-age story, Winter Loon captures the resilience of a boy determined to become a worthy man by confronting family demons, clawing his way out of the darkness, and forging a life from the shambles of a broken past. When buried truths come to light in the spring thaw, wounds are exposed and violence erupts, forcing Wes to embark on a search for his missing father, the truth about his mother, and a future he must claim for himself-a quest that begins back at that frozen lake. As the wait for his father stretches unforgivably into months, a local girl, whose own mother died a brutal death, captures his heart and imagination, giving Wes fresh air to breathe in the suffocating small town.
Winter Loon (Little A, December 2018), her haunting debut novel about family and sacrifice, is an Amazon bestseller.Ībandoned by his father after his mother drowns in a frozen Minnesota lake, fifteen-year-old Wes Ballot is stranded with coldhearted grandparents and holed up in his mother’s old bedroom, surrounded by her remnants and memories. She was born and raised in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, is a graduate of the University of Maryland, and lives with her husband and two children near Boston. SUSAN BERNHARD is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship recipient and a graduate of the GrubStreet Novel Incubator program.
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