"These are fine stories from the very heart of things." --Thomas McGuane
"The stories in Grass Fires are strong, visceral, poignant, out of the lineage of Willa Cather and Sherwood Anderson, perhaps the Irish Frank O'Connor and Edna O'Brien.... The collection carries a substantial weight, but flies, a night and day bird with a unique and peculiar vision of soul and landscape." -- Jim Harrison
"The stories in Grass Fires are strong, visceral, poignant, out of the lineage of Willa Cather and Sherwood Anderson, perhaps the Irish Frank O'Connor and Edna O'Brien.... The collection carries a substantial weight, but flies, a night and day bird with a unique and peculiar vision of soul and landscape." -- Jim Harrison