I have always admired the fiction of Gladys Swan and now with A Garden Amid Fires she claims new mastery of the short story. A wide variety of settings adds brilliance to important themes: the irresistible powers of memory, the confusions of exile, genuineness and falsity in art, the integrity of loneliness. Every situation is seen in an ironic light, yet every character is fully respected. Each paragraph is rewarding and the whole of the collection is a rich trove. Such precision of observation, such fineness of intonation! Uncannily good. — Fred Chappell

Gladys Swan is an author who conjures the power of time, memory, and the past in the heart of her work.—Iowa Source

Gladys Swan is the author of five previous volumes of short fiction and two novels, Carnival for the Gods and Ghost Dance: A Play of Voices. She received the Tate Prize for Poetry and the Lawrence Foundation Award for Fiction. She has taught creative writing at the University of Missouri-Columbia and at Vermont College's MFA program. She lives in Columbia, Missouri.   

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