Pia z ehrhardt biography
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The Owls of Solomon Place
Last May a great horned owl fell into our backyard while I unloaded grocery bags from my car. I froze and kept a distance. We&#x;d been watching the family; this looked like the female. She and her mate had made a nest in the live oak behind our house, or, rather, they&#x;d been squatting in a nest built by black crows who daily mobbed them with swoops and scolds. Babies&#x;we counted two&#x;had hatched. At night, one parent guarded the clutch while the other hunted in the 1,acre park across the street. A red clay finial on the roof of our house served as a lookout perch, or the crooked telephone pole. The owl sighted prey, its thick head on a swivel. My husband and I drank gin and took in the show from our porch, and the Solomon Place neighbors walked down the street with their drinks and gathered on the corner, all of us waiting for the bulky bird to take off.
And now I hoped that she&#x;d only flown into a window and knocked herself out. A neighbor passed by on his way to jog and I asked if he&#x;d check to see if she was alive. I&#x;m afraid of dead things, dying people. I worried there was blood. Or that her neck had been snapped. I blamed our vigilant black dog, fearing she&#x;d somehow cornered the feeding owl and shaken her sensel
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Pia Z. Ehrhardt
American writer
Pia Z. Ehrhardt assignment an Earth writer whose story put in safekeeping Famous Fathers (ISBN&#;) was published overtake MacAdam/Cage row [1][2][3] Ehrhardt has as well been obtainable in Narrative Magazine, McSweeney's and The Mississippi Review. She distant as Visitor Editor sale Guernica Munitions dump in Sept, She deterioration the champion of representation Narrative Prize.[4]
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[edit]- Author's Website
- Guest editor character in Guernica Magazine, Sep,
- Carnivale, tiny story be glad about SmokeLong Quarterly, June 15,
- Summer Travel, short parcel in SmokeLong Quarterly, Honorable 15,
- interview in SmokeLong Quarterly, June 15,
- interview in SmokeLong Quarterly, Honourable 15,
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How I Write
| Pia Z. Ehrhardt’s stories occur in and around New Orleans, a place of hardship and decay but also hope. Her women are trying to find love, or something like it, and flail in their attempts. Ehrhardt, born in Philadelphia to musical parents, credits the melodrama of her boisterous Italian family for motivating her to write about what she saw and heard, since she had few other chances to “get a word in edgewise.” This is evident in the lilting, though imperative, cadences in her story collection, Famous Fathers. Ehrhardt was drawn early to Southern writers: “I liked how the landscape was a character, a living, breathing player in the work.” She studied with Frederick Barthelme and Mary Robison, whose fiction she describes as concise, meticulous and openhearted. Her work has appeared in many print and online publications, including Mississippi Review and Narrative, and can also be heard on NPR and WQED. She is at work on her first novel, Speeding in the Driveway. She lives with her husband and son in New Orleans, a community she loves and is committed to in the wake of Katrina. * * * |
| Why: I write to have a voice. I was a quiet kid in a noisy, overwhelming Italian family. They had opinions about everything and everyone, and told rhy |