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Berna Deane South’s Among the Feathered Warriors should carry a warning label. The stories and poems in this collection seduce you with their honest and elegant language and then, without warning, they go for the throat and refuse to let you go. Joyful or full of fury, wise and forgiving, or trapped in mazes of ignorance and hate, the stubborn survivors who populate South’s pages always ring true. Read more

About Berna Deane South

Berna Deane South has received the Harcourt, Brace, and World Fellowship for the Novel at the University of Colorado Writer’s Conference, the Indiana University Foundation Scholarship for the Novel, the Indiana University Scholarship for Poetry, and the Indiana University Writer’s Conference Citation for superior work in progress in the short story. Read more

Excerpt from the Book

Thorpe is a cocker. He even looks something like the fighting chickens he keeps in their walks out beyond the sheds. He’s lean and stringy, so the sudden lumps of biceps shooting up under his blue shirt sleeves when he’s changing a tire come as a surprise. Read more

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