Words about R.W. Hartshorn's fiction
“Literary in the best and most ambitious sense, mixing bathos and pathos in both absurd and everyday circumstances as [their] characters seek to somehow, some way burst the social or economic constraints that bind them..."
~Robert Vivian, author of Cold Snap as Yearning (Nebraska Book Award and Society of Midland Authors Award recipient)
"Brutal and fantastic."
~Hypertext Magazine
"Allusive, terse, and realistic..."
~Douglas Glover, author of Elle (Governor General's Award recipient)
"Dynamic and experimental..."
~Kate McCahill, author of Patagonian Road
"A talent for the arresting, unexpected detail."
~Domenic Stansberry, author of The Last Days of Il Duce (Edgar Award and Hammett Prize finalist)
“Literary in the best and most ambitious sense, mixing bathos and pathos in both absurd and everyday circumstances as [their] characters seek to somehow, some way burst the social or economic constraints that bind them..."
~Robert Vivian, author of Cold Snap as Yearning (Nebraska Book Award and Society of Midland Authors Award recipient)
"Brutal and fantastic."
~Hypertext Magazine
"Allusive, terse, and realistic..."
~Douglas Glover, author of Elle (Governor General's Award recipient)
"Dynamic and experimental..."
~Kate McCahill, author of Patagonian Road
"A talent for the arresting, unexpected detail."
~Domenic Stansberry, author of The Last Days of Il Duce (Edgar Award and Hammett Prize finalist)
R.W. Hartshorn is a nonbinary fiction writer and educator from the Rensselaer Plateau.