Austin, Texas, 31 July, 2020 – Plain View Press announces the release of Gypsy Spirit: and Other Stories of Childhood, Nature, Life Choices, Loss, and Love by Ute Carson, hitting bookstores and Amazon on July 31, 2020.
Gypsy Spirit contains a lifelong collection of published short stories, flash stories, essays, commentaries and memoirs of Ute Carson. A woman who survived World War II horrors in early life, Ute Carson tells vivid stories that reveal of a life rich in history and full of tenderness, joy, and celebration. With family photographs and children’s drawings, this collective family adventure is both entertaining and insightful for people of all ages. The captivating stories follow Ute Carson’s journey through Childhood, to Nature, to Life Choices, to Loss, and finally to Love.
A writer from youth and an M.A. graduate in comparative literature from the University of Rochester, German-born Ute Carson published her first prose piece in 1977. Colt Tailing, a 2004 novel, was a finalist for the Peter Taylor Book Award. Carson’s story “The Fall” won Outrider Press’s Grand Prize and appeared in its short story and poetry anthology A Walk through My Garden, 2007. Her second novel In Transit was published in 2008. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines in the US and abroad. Carson’s poetry was featured on the televised Spoken Word Showcase 2009, 2010, 2011, Channel Austin. A poetry collection Just a Few Feathers was published in 2011. The poem “A Tangled Nest of Moments” placed second in the Eleventh International Poetry Competition 2012. Her chapbook Folding Washing was published in 2013 and her collection of poems My Gift to Life was nominated for the 2015 Pushcart Award Prize. Save the Last Kiss, a novella, was published in 2016. Her poetry collection Reflections was out in 2018. She received the Ovidiu-Bektore Literary Award 2018 from the Anticus Mulicultural Association in Constanta, Romania. In 2018 she was nominated a second time for the Pushcart Award Prize by Plain View Press. Ute Carson’s website is www.utecarson.com.
Copies of Gypsy Spirit, paperback (ISBN: 9781632100764) can be purchased on Amazon or in quantity from Plain View Press.