Space Between Trees

Description

Evie is a quirky high-schooler who tends to stretch the truth. She especially enjoys exaggerating her 'relationship' with Jonah, a college-aged guy who earns his living dragging dead animals out of the woods behind a wealthy neighborhood. Her tall tales are harmless until the day Jonah finds the body of Evie's schoolmate Zabet during his trek through the woods. At the funeral, a fateful lie leads Evie into a complicated relationship with Zabet's father and her old best friend Hadley. And as Evie and Hadley attempt to track down the killer, they set in motion a series of events that may put their own lives in danger. Katie Williams brings a fresh, authentic voice to this unique coming of age tale.

A Michener fellow and graduate of the MFA program at the University of Texas in Austin, Katie's short stories have appeared in such journals as Agni, American Short Fiction, Indiana Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and Subtropics. She currently teaches writing at the Academy of Art in San Francisco.