Shannon Pufahl grew up in rural Kansas. She teaches at Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow in fiction. Her essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review and elsewhere, on topics ranging from John Brown and the antebellum Midwest, to personal memoir. She lives in the Bay Area with her wife and their dog.
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“A rich and rugged western about dreams deferred and living defiantly.” —O: The Oprah Magazine A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow dangerous paths through the American West. Muriel is newly married and restless, tra... SEE MORE