Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Give Me Your Answer
- Publisher
- Porcupine's Quill
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1999
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Canadian, Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889842083
- Publish Date
- Sep 1999
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
Give Me Your Answer is K.D. Miller's second collection of short stories. The book is made up of twelve stories which together trace the evolving life of the protagonist, Daisy Chandler, from childhood to marriage and subsequently to divorce and a deepening religious conviction.
About the author
K.D. Miller's stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and have been nominated for the Journey Prize and the National Magazine Award for fiction (1997). In 1999 she was a runner-up in the PRISM international short fiction contest. Two collections of her stories have been published -- A Litany in Time of Plague (PQL 1994), and Give Me Your Answer (PQL 1999) -- with the latter being short-listed for the Upper Canada Brewing Company's inaugural Writers` Craft Award. A collection of personal essays, Holy Writ: A Writer Reflects on Creation and Imagination was published in 2001, and nominated for the sixteenth annual TORGI Talking Book of the Year Award. In 2010, K.D. Miller published her first novel, Brown Dwarf, with Biblioasis. K.D. Miller lives and teaches writing courses in Toronto.
Awards
- Short-listed, Upper Canada Writers Craft Award