{"product_id":"2025-connecticut-literary-anthology-paperback","title":"2025 Connecticut Literary Anthology - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristine Kandic Torres\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eVictoria Buitron\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFrederick-Douglass Knowles II\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoin Connecticuters in celebrating The Constitution State through words in the 2025 Connecticut Literary Anthology. This year's anthology constellates forty-six works of poetry and prose from emerging and established Nutmeggers. These stories, poems, and nonfiction serve as a collective love letter to Connecticut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristine Kandic Torres is the author of the novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Girls in Queens\u003c\/em\u003e (HarperVia), which was selected for the American Library Association's 2023 Rise Feminist Booklist. Her Pushcart Prize-nominated short fiction has been published in outlets such as \u003cem\u003eWigleaf\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Offing\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eKweli\u003c\/em\u003e, while her non-fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e. Christine currently lives in Fairfield, Connecticut where she is at work on her second novel.\u003c\/p\u003e Victoria Buitron is a writer who hails from Ecuador and resides in Connecticut. She received an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University. Her debut memoir-in-essays, A Body Across Two Hemispheres (Woodhall Press), was the 2021 Fairfield Book Prize winner. 2023, she received the Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts. She has been part of the team that edits the Connecticut Literary Anthology since 2023. Her debut poetry collection, Unburying the Bones, is 2025's VersoFrontera prize winner and will be published by Texas Review Press. \u003cp\u003eFrederick-Douglass Knowles II is a Professor of English at Connecticut State Community College: Three Rivers Campus. He is an Emeritus Poet Laureate of Hartford, CT. Knowles has been the recipient of the Nutmeg Poetry Award and the Connecticut of The Arts Fellow in Artist Excellence for Poetry\/Creative Non-Fiction. He is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Knowles is the author of \u003cem\u003eBlackRoseCity\u003c\/em\u003e and the upcoming collection \u003cem\u003eSinking in Moonlight Alone\u003c\/em\u003e in 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 218\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335046578425,"sku":"9781960456496","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/2hKm96bDLE9781960456496.webp?v=1769653582","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/2025-connecticut-literary-anthology-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}