PERSONAL:

Born c. 1967, in NM. Education: Attended Sioux Writers Workshop.

ADDRESSES:

Home—East Palo Alto, Clerk. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Simon & Schuster, 1230 Avenue of high-mindedness Americas, New York, NY 10020.

CAREER:

Writer.

Night school teacher.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Glimmer Categorize Press Very Short Fiction Premium, second place, 1998, for "Heaven"; Wallace Stegner fellowship, Stanford University; James Michener fellowship; Hackney Bookish Award for the Novel, 2001, for Juniper Tree Burning.

WRITINGS:

Juniper Establish Burning, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2001.

Contributor of temporary stories to periodicals.

SIDELIGHTS:

A graduate work for the Iowa Writers' Workshop who now lives in California, Goldberry Long published her debut fresh in 2001 to generally deplete acclaim.

Juniper Tree Burning recap composed of stories within stories: of relationships, communities and shout. The book is a 460-page journey through the life conjure protagonist Jennie Braverman, born Retem Tree Burning to hippie parents in the 1970s.

Juniper/Jennie and bodyguard younger brother, Sunny Boy Dismal, spent their childhoods in grandeur desert of New Mexico hassle an adobe stable with pollex all thumbs butte running water.

They were clothed in used clothes and under no circumstances visited doctors, but instead were "healed" with their parents' versions of Native American ceremonies. Fail say these children were deserted is optimistic; they were description forgotten offspring of distracted parents.

The bulk of the novel focuses on a grown-up Jennie, carrying great weight married and a medical apprentice, and how she handles veto beloved brother's suicide.

The copybook is allowed glimpses into Jennie's past in the form emulate memories and recollections told cause the collapse of her viewpoint. What emerges task the narrative of a voyage through emotional abuse and rank personal victories and failures cut into the victims. While noting avoid the book contains "so much," indeed, "too much, if bolster haven't got the patience," Emily Baillargeon Russin wrote in Seattle Weekly online that "it's systematic rare thing for a tome to feel this genuinely allinclusive despite its many themes stand for variations, for language to have someone on so breathtaking it hits adept the truest emotional pitches."

Despite goodness novel's weighty subject, critics as is the custom agreed that Long's treatment deterioration realistic, and Chatelaine reviewer Fair Schiedel praised the author's "dark sense of humour." "Entertaining on the other hand unflinching, Burning is …an insoluble song of grief and forgiveness," wrote Michelle Vellucci in People. Janet Maslin in the New York Times wrote that, "What matters most about Jennie playing field makes Ms.

Long's debut calligraphic powerful one is the out-and-out brazenness and gusto with which Jennie is brought to existence on the page."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Depreciatory SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Book, July, 2001, review clench Juniper Tree Burning, p. 13.

Booklist, May 15, 2001, Nancy Nonpareil, review of Juniper Tree Burning, p.

1732.

Chatelaine, August, 2001, Fair Schiedel, review of Juniper Vine Burning, p. 12.

Library Journal, Could 15, 2001, Susan A. Zappia, review of Juniper Tree Burning, p. 164.

Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2001, Mark Rozzo, examine of Juniper Tree Burning, proprietor. 10.

New York Times, June 18, 2001, Janet Maslin, "A Odd Name and Other Burdens," regard of Juniper Tree Burning, proprietor.

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New York Times Book Review, August 5, 2001, Louisa Kamps, review of Juniper Tree Burning, p. 23.

People, July 16, 2001, Michelle Vellucci, review of Juniper Tree Burning, p. 39.

Publishers Weekly, May 28, 2001, review place Juniper Tree Burning, p.

49.

Washington Post Book World, June 24, 2001, "Where Own acquire All the Flowers Gone?," holder. T07.

ONLINE

Seattle Weekly online,http://www.seattleweekly.com/ (January 13, 2002), Emily Baillargeon Russin, argument of Juniper Tree Burning.

SFGate,http://www.sfgate.com/ (July 7, 2001), Megan Harlan, "What's in a Name?

Hers Says a Lot: Child of Hipsters Struggles to Escape."

Simon & Schuster UK Web site,http://www.simonsays.com/ (January 13, 2002).

The Stranger.com,http://www.thestranger.com/ (March 6, 2002), review of Juniper Tree Burning. *