The Plural of Fish & Miguel and Carmen (Arch Street Prize)

Winner of the 2015 Arch Street Prize, "The Plural of Fish" stands out as a remarkably perceptive, poetic and finely structured work consisting of short stanzas in a lyric investigation of unsolvable math theorems, triplets, loneliness and human connection.

A true-life short story and winner of the 2014 Arch Street Prize, "Miguel and Carmen" begins in post-revolutionary Tehran, indelibly remembering blood transfusions and bone-marrow tests, abortion and transplanted lives, and a life seemingly without meaning or hope during the teenage years.