Write Back Now!

Description

Acclaimed poet Lisa Fishman’s debut novel tracks a peripatetic 1970s childhood and the uprooted friendship between girls who stay connected by mail, until they don’t. It opens in a borrowed house in wintry Nova Scotia, where the adult narrator faces the first-ever border closure between her two countries. Framed by these long-separated experiences, the novel keeps almost-beginning again as the narrator tries to figure out where she will be next by figuring out where she has been previously. Along the way, a dead horse, a lost crop, a miscarriage, an extra-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds, and more friendships between women emerge. Write Back Now! explores the tensions between experience and loss, imagination and memory, the real and the secretly real.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Lisa Fishman
Published: 04/01/2026
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781778490620
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 0.27″ H x 7.04″ L x 5.55″ W

About the Author

Lisa Fishman is the author of the story collection World Naked Bike Ride, published by Gaspereau Press and short-listed for the ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction and prose have appeared in Fairy Tale Review, Granta, The Rupture, Guesthouse, periodicities, Amethyst Review, The Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. A nominee for the PEN/Robert Dau Short Story Prize and a Pushcart Prize, Fishman has published eight poetry books, most recently One Big Time; Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition; and 24 Pages & other poems, all on Wave Books. Her work is included in Best American Experimental Poetry, The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, Fence Books’ Not for Mothers Only and other anthologies; it appears in Jacket, jubilat, Volt, American Letters & Commentary and other journals. With roots in both Montreal and the Detroit area, Fishman is a dual citizen who divides her time between Eastern Canada and her Wisconsin farm. Write Back Now! is her first novel.