Under the tucson mooncage

Kim Antieau is the author of several novels and short stories for adults and teenagers including Mercy Unbound She graduated Eastern Michigan University and lives with her husband poet Mario Milosevic in the Pacific Northwest Aside from writing books she works as a librarian. Literature fiction under the tucson moon saga For nine winters writer Kim Antieau and her husband Mario Milosevic travelled to the Sonoran Desert Kim wrote many novels on these retreats including the well loved Church of the Old Mermaids The Fish Wife Whackadoodle Times and The Monster s Daughter While in the desert Kim also wrote a series of essays about not just political borderlands but those in between places where creativity thrives or dies those places profane or sacred joyful or despairing In her novel The Desert Siren Kim describes one of her characters as a siren She sings to the wild things she wrangles sea horses and dust storms She directs coyote choruses and bargains with ravens She does not hear the call of the wild She is the call of the wild Kim is a desert siren too only she wrangles words instead of horses Enter the life of a deeply creative artist in these essays gathered in one place for the first time under the Tucson moon Under the Tucson Moon