AMY KROHN
Amy Krohn writes from an old, brick farmhouse on the dairy farm in rural Wisconsin where she lives with her husband, Dean, and their three children. Amy enjoys the challenges of homeschooling, the blessings of membership in a Reformed church, and frequent retreats into the world of good books.
Praise for A Flower in the Heart of the Painting
Amy Krohn's A Flower in the Heart of the Painting is a strongly cohesive, quietly intense collection of stories, graceful in every sense of the word. Her characters face a variety of situations, wrestling with some of the most challenging mysteries of romance and fulfilled love, family and faith, childhood and maturity. Yet uniting the stories is a firm focus on art--not as mere escape or ornament but as a life-changing, spirit-filled, identifying endeavor. Krohn writes beautifully, with delicately evocative language throughout, not to mention penetrating observation and psychological depth. A very fine debut.
--Professor David Graham, author of After Confession, Stutter Monk, and Greatest Hits.
Amy Krohn’s stories are carefully drawn portraits—life studies if you will—of ordinary men and women who inhabit the rural landscapes of Wisconsin. These are inward-turning stories, “Where the Meanings, are–” as Emily Dickinson says. Krohn renders her subjects and themes with delicate brush strokes, with the control and precision of a water colorist. These stories are acts of faith and hope. As one of her narrators says, “Isn’t art the act of creation, after all? As God speaks the world into existence, so the artist extracts her own world from an empty place.” She easily could be speaking of Amy Krohn's fiction.
--Thom Tammaro, editor, Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest and Imagining Home: Writing from the Midwest.
Reviews of A Flower in the Heart of the Painting
Amy Krohn writes from an old, brick farmhouse on the dairy farm in rural Wisconsin where she lives with her husband, Dean, and their three children. Amy enjoys the challenges of homeschooling, the blessings of membership in a Reformed church, and frequent retreats into the world of good books.
Praise for A Flower in the Heart of the Painting
Amy Krohn's A Flower in the Heart of the Painting is a strongly cohesive, quietly intense collection of stories, graceful in every sense of the word. Her characters face a variety of situations, wrestling with some of the most challenging mysteries of romance and fulfilled love, family and faith, childhood and maturity. Yet uniting the stories is a firm focus on art--not as mere escape or ornament but as a life-changing, spirit-filled, identifying endeavor. Krohn writes beautifully, with delicately evocative language throughout, not to mention penetrating observation and psychological depth. A very fine debut.
--Professor David Graham, author of After Confession, Stutter Monk, and Greatest Hits.
Amy Krohn’s stories are carefully drawn portraits—life studies if you will—of ordinary men and women who inhabit the rural landscapes of Wisconsin. These are inward-turning stories, “Where the Meanings, are–” as Emily Dickinson says. Krohn renders her subjects and themes with delicate brush strokes, with the control and precision of a water colorist. These stories are acts of faith and hope. As one of her narrators says, “Isn’t art the act of creation, after all? As God speaks the world into existence, so the artist extracts her own world from an empty place.” She easily could be speaking of Amy Krohn's fiction.
--Thom Tammaro, editor, Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest and Imagining Home: Writing from the Midwest.
Reviews of A Flower in the Heart of the Painting
