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Published: Fri Apr 15 1994
Eva LundsagerUnder Constant Still (detail), 2017–2021, oil on canvas
AGNI 39 Print Only

Debra Spark is the author of four books of fiction, including The Pretty Girl (Four Way, 2012), Coconuts for the Saint (Faber & Faber, Avon, 1996) The Ghost of Bridgetown (Graywolf Press, 2001), and Good for the Jews (University of Michigan, 2009). Her popular lectures on writing are collected in Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing (University of Michigan Press, 2005) and she is editor of the anthology Twenty under Thirty. She teaches at Colby College in Maine. (updated 4/2015)

Spark’s Coconuts for the Saint was reviewed in AGNI 41 by Catherine Carter.

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