Fiction: Rachel Cline & Hillary Jordan

Hillary Jordan grew up in Dallas, Texas and Muskogee, Oklahoma. She received her BA in English and Political Science from Wellesley College and spent fifteen years as an advertising copywriter before coming to her senses and starting to write fiction. She got her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. Mudbound, published by Algonquin Books in March 2008, is her first book. It won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded biennially to a debut novel that addresses issues of social justice. Hillary’s short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, including StoryQuarterly and Carolina Quarterly. She lives in Tivoli, New York. She reads from her novel: Mudbound

 "[A] beautiful debut. . . . A superbly rendered depiction of the fury and terror wrought by racism." Publishers Weekly 

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Rachel Cline is a New Yorker who spent most of her thirties in Los Angeles . She intended to write the great American movie, but instead, she got fired after three episodes of Knots Landing! She is the author of one previous novel, What to Keep and presently lives in Brooklyn.

She reads from her novel: My Liar

“Cline has looked with an outsider’s fresh eye on that elusive place where Hollywood and Los Angeles —dreams and reality—intersect. Besides giving us an entirely new story of female friendships and careers in the movie business, she’s unearthed the gleaming produce from Gelson’s Groceries, the crazed Korean masseuses on Beverly Boulevard , the Al-Anon meetings across from Dutton’s Books, where film’s miserable elite meet. This book shines as an architectural, literary, cinematic discovery.”
—Carolyn See


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suzanne dottino/fiction curator

suzanne@kgbbar.com