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Jay Baron Nicorvo

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Jay Baron Nicorvo

Jay Baron Nicorvo lives on an old farm outside Battle Creek, MI, with his wife, Thisbe Nissen, their son and a couple dozen vulnerable chickens. His writing has appeared in Salon, Poets & Writers and The Believer, and has been featured on NPR and "PBS NewsHour." He’s published a poetry collection, DEADBEAT, and served as an editor at Ploughshares and at PEN America, the literary magazine of the PEN American Center. He was membership director for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses [clmp], and he’s a sometimes teacher at Western Michigan University, where he helps advise the journal Third Coast.

Jay Baron Nicorvo

Books by Jay Baron Nicorvo

by Jay Baron Nicorvo - Fiction

When an Army trucker goes AWOL before her third deployment, she ends up sleeping in Central Park. There, she meets a Vietnam vet and widower who inherited a tumbledown Borscht Belt resort. Converted into a halfway house for homeless veterans, the Standard --- and its 2,000 acres over the Marcellus Shale Formation --- is coveted by a Houston-based multinational company. Toward what end, only a corporate executive knows. With three violent acts at its center --- a mauling, a shooting, a mysterious death decades in the past --- and set largely in the Catskills, THE STANDARD GRAND spans an epic year in the lives of its diverse cast.