Award Winning Author - C.E. Poverman

C.E. Poverman

C. E. Poverman’s first book of stories, The Black Velvet Girl, won the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. His second, Skin, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His stories have appeared in the O’Henry, Pushcart, The Colorado Review, The North American Review, and other anthologies. Poverman’s most recent book is a novel of suspense and obsession, Love by Drowning, which Library Journal gave a starred review calling it an "acutely intelligent psychological thriller".

Love by Drowning

A Novel of Suspense and Obsession…

In their last anguished moments together, Lee Anne, as an act of revenge, gives Val a picture of his brother, Davis, who just several months before has been killed in a bizarre accident. Lee Anne will tell Val nothing about the photo, but for seventeen years she has sent him fragmented and cryptic messages on unsigned postcards which seem to be the aftershocks of a terrible event. And for seventeen years Val has dared not reply. Now, he is on his way back to see her, even as he fears it may cost him everything.

"I am not lying when I say this book is better than Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn."
—Melanie Bishop for Huffington Post Books

Skin

In these sensitive and keenly observed stories dramatizing the complexities and ambiguities of human relationships, C. E. Poverman presents a richly varied range of protagonists. Among them are an Hispanic social worker who takes calls on a crisis center helpline ("Cutter"), a young model who demonstrates cosmetics ("Beautiful"), and a college professor accused of sexual abuse ("The Man Who Died").

“Poverman’s fifth book is a dazzler. At its best, and that’s often, a powerful group of stories: one of the finest collections since Christopher Tilghman’s In a Father’s Place.” —Kirkus Review (starred)