Dreaming of France

Winner of the 2017 Blue Light Book Award

Kerry Tepperman Campbell's brilliant debut delves into the imaginations of American women who are fascinated with France. These jewel-like vignettes and prose poems weave their way between an imagined world and a real one. Immersed in luminous moments, the characters find themselves in a series of fully realized French landscapes including a well preserved Roman amphitheater in Provence, a refugee camp in Calais, and Empress Josephine's famous rose garden in Rueil-Malmasion. The reader will be swept away by these seductive vignettes, set in a world where archetypes hover and even small moments become indelible.

Kerry Tepperman Campbell is a writer and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the recipient of the New Millennium Poetry Prize. Her work has recently appeared in New Millennium Writings, Bitter Oleander, Paterson Literary Review, Laurel Review, Cloudbank, The Round, American Mustard, and Unstitched States. Dreaming of France is her debut collection of prose poems and vignettes.