June 16, 2010
Portland author Cheryl Strayed won a Pushcart Prize last month for her stunning essay, “Munro Country,” about Alice Munro. (If you're an Alice Munro fan, go here right now to read the essay and
prepare to have your day wrecked for anything but curling up somewhere with a Munro collection). The Pushcart Prizes are given to the best essays, short stories and poems published in small presses.
Strayed is currently working on revisions and edits of a new memoir, Wild, which Knopf will publish this year. Her novel, Torch, was published by Hougton Mifflin in 2006 and was selected by The Oregonian as one of the top ten books by Pacific Northwest authors that year. Strayed's essays have twice appeared in the Best American Essays anthologies.
— posted by
Jamie
