From Elliott Bay Book Company:

We're excited to help celebrate the release of Seattle playwright Stacy D. Flood's debut novella, The Salt Fields (Lanternfish Press) tonight. His work has appeared at ACT, Seattle Fringe and at the Hansberry Project's REPRESENT festival and he is the recipient of a Clark/Gross Novel Writing Award. Signed copies of The Salt Fields will be available for purchase. Joining us as onstage interlocutor tonight is novelist Christina Clancy.

About The Salt Fields: On the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north, he has nothing left but ghosts: the ghost of his murdered wife, the ghost of his drowned daughter, the ghosts of his father and his grandmother and the people who disappeared from his town without trace or explanation. In the cramped car, Minister finds himself in close quarters with three passengers also joining the exodus from the South—people seeking a new life, whose motives, declared or otherwise, will change Minister's life with devastating consequences.

Originally from Buffalo, and currently living in Seattle, Stacy D. Flood’s work has been published nationally, and performed on stages nationwide as well as in the Puget Sound Area. He has been an artist-in-residence at DISQUIET in Lisbon, as well as The Millay Colony of the Arts, and he is the recipient of a Getty Fellowship to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

Christina Clancy is the author of The Second Home and the forthcoming (July 2021) Shoulder Season (available for pre-order now), both published by St. Martin's Press. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune and in literary journals like Glimmer Train Stories, Hobart, and Pleiades. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her family.