Talking Women, Art, History & Trauma: The WarPaint Trilogy

Online, September 2, 2013 (Newswire.com) - University of Florida professor & novelist Stephanie Smith has completed the manuscript for "Content Burns, the third installment in The WarPaint Trilogy.

Stephanie Smith's three novels are intertwined by love and friendship, and deal with contemporary women who are struggling to balance art, love, illness and trauma. War-paint is about three women painters who must come to terms with imminent mortality and artistic frustrations; Baby Rocket is the story of an abandoned, adopted child, who, as an adult, must heal these ruptures in her past, and Content Burns follows two women in the same family separated by three centuries, both of whom survive historical trauma: the massacre of the Pequot tribe in 1634 and the loss of the Twin Towers on 9/11.

Ms. Smith describes her latest series of books as "a trilogy about contemporary American women who have encountered and survived some kind of trauma. A common thread in all three of them is a permeable line between the real and the unreal." Ms. Smith's writing has been described as "thought provoking feminist fiction", "lyrical and emotionally charged" and "multilayered and enigmatic"

Upcoming Author dates include:

September 4 Meet & Greet Author Event at Library West Cafe, Smathers Library, the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

October 19 Meet and Greet Author Event at the Town Book Shop in Westfield New Jersey

ABOUT STEPHANIE A. SMITH Ms. Smith is a professor of literature at the University of Florida. Her other published novels include Snow-Eyes, The Boy Who Was Thrown Away, Other Nature, and two works of criticism, Conceived By Liberty and Household Words. http://stephanieasmith.net/

PUBLICITY CONTACT: For further information, review copies or to schedule an interview, including Skype readings & interviews by the author in classes and book groups, contact Sarah Wilson, Sarah Wilson Business Communications, (518) 637-4326 or [email protected]

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