Natalie L. M. Petesch
Natalie L. M. Petesch has published ten previous books of fiction, including the Swallow Press titles Duncan’s Colony, Flowering Mimosa, Justina of Andalusia, and The Immigrant Train. She lives in Pittsburgh.
Author of…
Duncan’s Colony
“During the nineteen sixties, following the missile crisis and during the Vietnam War, communitarian societies began to reappear in the United States. Those who were of an invincibly optimistic nature gathered together in agrarian or utopian communes reminiscent of the nineteenth century.…
Flowering Mimosa
Flowering Mimosa is a story of lost innocence and coming of age among the disinherited of America in the 1980's. Against a backdrop of social and economic disruption in the American southwest, Petesch traces the fates of the Wingfield family, who have lost their Texas farm and moved to a mining town in Silver Valley, Idaho.…
Justina of Andalusia
and Other Stories
This collection of stories is, like Petesch’s previous work, distinguished by its brilliant lyrical intensity and by characters who are stunningly alive. It is a powerful collection about impassioned cultural conflicts in present-day Spain and Mexico; it is also a book about ourselves—how we have failed to love the Earth and have squandered our resources.…
The Immigrant Train
& Other Stories
In this short story collection, acclaimed author Natalie Petesch reaffirms for us our enduring debt to millions of immigrants who helped build America. Inspired by her own parents’ journey at the turn of the century, Petesch spins these tales of immigration in a spare and lyrical prose that assures our involvement: a political fugitive threatened with imprisonment reaches a long-sought mining town in Minnesota; as Polish immigrant Witold Dobrynski realizes his dream of owning a farm in Texas, a spiritual crisis changes his life; fourteen-year-old Stasio Wolski quickly becomes a man in the underworld of a big city but is haunted by the loss of his Polish identity: a beekeeping bachelor's pre-occupation with the social life of the hive is seamlessly interwoven with the colorful tapestry of early twentieth-century Pittsburgh.…
The Confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories
“Memory, of course, is sometimes like a bucking horse, sometimes a runaway one, and one must control the reins until finally it stops, snorting with exhausted relief,” writes Natalie L. M. Petesch in her haunting new collection, The Confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories.…
- Sue Ann Painter
Director of the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati… - Sylvia A. Pamboukian
Associate professor in the department of English at Robert Morris University… - Helen Papanikolas
Author of several books of fiction and non-fiction, most recently the novel The Time of the Little Black Bird, winner of the Utah Book Award for Fiction… - Ron Parker
Academic geologist who turned to sheep raising in 1976… - Watson Parker
Recognized authority on the Black Hills… - Suzi Parron
Quilter, backwoods traveler, an avid kayaker and a folk art collector… - Jack Parson
Associate Professor of Political Science at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, 29424… - Timothy H. Parsons
- Stephen H. Paschen
University archivist as well as assistant professor in libraries and media services at Kent State University… - Rita Patteson
Curator of Manuscripts at the Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University… - Kirstin Pauka
Scholar, performer, percussionist, and martial artist… - Phillip G. Payne
Associate professor of history at St. Bonaventure University in western New York, where he teaches courses in United States and public history… - Richard M. Pearl
Author of thirty books on gems, minerals, and geology, including Popular Gemology, How to Know the Minerals and Rocks, and Successful Mineral Collecting and Prospecting… - Stuart Pearson
Son-in-law of An Sudibjo, the subject of BitterSweet… - Neal Pease
Associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee… - Morse Peckham
- William D. Pederson
Professor of political science at Louisiana State University in Shreveport… - Stephen Peet
- Olga Anastasia Pelensky
- V. Penelope Pelizzon
- Wade C. Pendleton
- Nigel Penn
Senior lecturer in the history department at the University of Cape Town… - Derek R. Peterson
Senior lecturer in African history and director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Michigan… - Natalie L. M. Petesch
- Richard Pevear
- Howard Phillips
Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town, where he pioneered research in and the teaching of the social history of medicine and disease… - Sam Pickering
Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the author of numerous books of scholarship and creative nonfiction… - Charles J. Ping
- Helen Pinkerton
Poet, essayist, and scholar of American and English literature… - Gordon Pitts
- Sol T. Plaatje
- Eva Plach
Assistant professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada… - Sandy Plunkett
- Gloria Poedjosoedarmo
- Simon Pokagan
- Pearl T. Ponce
Assistant professor of history at Ithaca College. … - Robert J. Pond
Native of Hillsboro, Ohio, and a graduate of Ohio State University… - David Pool
Valuable addition to our understanding of the complex political forces at work in the struggle for independence… - Susan Porterfield
- Deborah Posel
Senior lecturer in sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand… - David Potash
- Randall Pouwels
Professor of African history at the University of Central Arkansas… - Jane Poyner
Lecturer in English, specializing in postcolonial literature, in the school of English at the University of Exeter… - Jay Prefontaine
- Ronald Primeau
Professor of English at Central Michigan University… - Dawn Prince-Hughes
- Gayle A. Pritchard
Fiber artist, curator, lecturer, and teacher… - William H. Pritchard
Professor of English at Amherst College… - James S. Pula
Professor of history at Purdue University North Central…





