Nicolette deCsipkay
Black Umbrella Stories - $15
Black Umbrella Stories
Reminiscent at turns of Angela Carter, David Lynch, and Isak Dinesen, Nicolette
de Csipkay's debut signals a fresh, versatile talent worthy of wide attention.
"Nicolette de Csipkay's seductive first collection reveals a violently brilliant
imagination at work." Rain Taxi Review of Books
"This is a polished gem of a book. Exquisitely written, elegantly imagined,
de Csipkay's stories are dreams hardened into dagger points. From the pleasure
trip that becomes a little too Kafkesque to the floral sacrifice that turns
deadly, de Csipkay's precise and dazzling prose twists and mutates, serpentine,
from fairy tale to gothic horror, from banality to peril. Black Umbrella Stories
is simultaneously enchanting and disturbing, and is an absolutely original
debut." Jeffrey DeShell
Nicolette
de Csipkay grew up in Riverside, California, the daughter of parents who
had emigrated to the U.S. from Hungary during World War II. She graduated
from the Creative Writing Program at University of Colorado, Boulder. Her
stories have appeared in Rohwedder, Short
Story, Gulf Coast, Telescope,
and Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction, among other
venues. She lives and teaches in Buffalo, NY.