About the Author
THE MAN WITH EIGHT PAIRS OF LEGS
PRAISE FOR THE MAN WITH EIGHT PAIRS OF LEGS:
Marvelous…sexy…harrowing.
Anthony Doerr, All the Light You Cannot See
Compelling…unpredictable….vibrant and vital…a memorable force.
Stuart Dybek, Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories
These stories owned me, body and soul.
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs
by Leslie Kirk Campbell, Author
Published by Sarabande Books, available everywhere February 1, 2022.
The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally, and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme.
Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, this collection of short stories is a study in compassion and in passion, a must-read for our times.
Leslie Kirk Campbell's debut short story collection, The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs (Sarabande, 2022) won the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction. Her award-winning stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Arts & Letters, and other literary magazines. The author of Journey into Motherhood: Writing Your Way to Self-Discovery (Riverhead), Campbell’s personal essays publish in San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and Literary Mama.
A Stanford graduate, Campbell has an MA in Poetry from San Francisco State and an MFA in Fiction from Writing Seminars at Bennington College. Campbell, a native Californian, is director and master teacher at Ripe Fruit Writing, a creative writing program she founded in San Francisco in 1991.
