About the Author

Rhonda Douglas is the author of Some Days I Think I Know Things: The Cassandra Poems (Signature Editions, 2008) and the short fiction collection Welcome to the Circus (Freehand Books, 2015). She is a graduate of the UBC MFA in Creative Writing Program. You can find her online at shallicompare.com and on Twitter: @shallicompare. She splits her time between Ottawa and the Maple Leaf Lounge.

Reviews

"[Douglas's stories] bubble with originality and daring... an exhilarating read." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Rhonda Douglas's Welcome to the Circus does what great short story collections do: just when you think you're safe, caught in the ebb and flow of strong narrative, the stories surprise you with a shift of the bare and the raw, each with those flashes of insight that are most akin to the spotlit reveal of nakedness. It has perhaps the best thing that you can say about any collection: they may be stories, but they read like truth. With a vast breadth of style, from Paleolithic romance to the spare desperate needs of a businesslike sex club, Welcome to the Circus delivers. This is a collection worth waiting for, and worth thinking about." RUSSELL WANGERSKY author of Whirl Away"Rhonda Douglas has a knack for making the bizarre seem reasonable and deeply human. A resurrected Neandertal, a Job Creator of the Year pornographer, a John Donne obsessed cutter, God -- these are just a few of the surprising characters in her circus. This funny, moving debut is a show you won't want to miss." CAROLINE ADDERSON author of Ellen in Pieces Every story in this collection is so precisely written and expertly handled..." RHONDA COLLIS for PRISM international