Ariel Grace Faulkner is a young author of contemporary American literary fiction. Evoking the same tradition as the likes of Louise Erdrich, Ariel’s storytelling seeks to find truth in a world where fact and folklore are blurred.
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FAST FACTS
Born: December 1986
Hometown: Wallingford, CT
Current City: Boston, MA
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"You cannot read Miss Faulkner's prose without recognizing the subtle humor, close observation and mature style as the features of a beginning writer of considerable ability and promise."
(John Burnside)
FLASH FICTION FEATURE: "Tattoos Are For Lovers"
It was written on the body. The skin of a sentence, the pulse of a word. A story inhabited. From the skunk mane that hung down his neck, flowing through the curve of the vertebrae, and settling deep into his Creole hips, was the spirit of what they call "a character." And a character he’d written too. Somewhere between the eyebrow and the parentheses hugging his lips, I read the man. And he was written something like this—
I’m not a man. I’m a lover. My skin is paper parchment, graffitied at my will. My choice, you hear? I’m a wild one.
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