DOGTOWN (black & white paperback edition)

Patricia Aakhus is the author of three novels set in Ireland, based on early medieval epic fragments she translated. Her first novel, THE VOYAGE OF MAEL DUIN (1991), won the Reader Cons Imaginative Book Award and the Cahill Award. Associate Professor of English and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Southern Indiana, Aakhus taught courses in alchemy, the history of magic, and mythology until her death in 2012. Her posthumous novel DOGTOWN (1996), grounded in Cherokee myth and magic, is set in the bottomlands of the Ohio.