Clifford Garstang grew up in the Midwest and received a BA from Northwestern University. After serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Korea, he earned an MA in English and a JD, both from Indiana University, and practiced international law in Singapore, Chicago, and Los Angeles with one of the largest law firms in the United States. Subsequently, he earned an MPA in International Development from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and worked for Harvard Law School as a legal reform consultant in Almaty, Kazakhstan. From 1996 to 2001, he was Senior Counsel for East Asia at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., where his work concentrated on China, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Garstang received an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte in 2003. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, The Ledge, The Baltimore Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Potomac Review and elsewhere, and has received Distinguished Mention in the Best American Series. He won the 2006 Confluence Fiction Prize and the 2007 GSU Review Fiction Prize and is a Fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.He currently lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.In an Uncharted Country
by Clifford Garstang
8.5 x 5.5 paperback
ISBN 978-0-9824416-7-1
View more work by cover artist Robert Miller at http://robertmillerphotography.smugmug.com/.
Bob Miller entered the international scene of photography in 2005. His pictures have been viewed by over a million people worldwide on his Flickr Website. He specializes in nature and landscape. His unique style has earned him the respect of noted photographers across the globe.
He has been most noted for his landscape and wildlife photography on the Blue Ridge Parkway. His photographs have appeared in many publications worldwide, and other forms of media including movies, calendars, and projected images in classical concerts in Italy.
Some of his publications include National Geographic, JPG Magazine, Image Driven Magazine, In the Moment (an Australian Arts Publication) and local Central Virginia. He has won both national and local awards for his photography. Most recently he won second place in the National Parks Foundation “Share the Experience” photo contest (2008). In 2007 and 2008, he placed first in the John Faber Smith Mountain Arts Council photo contest.His photography has been displayed in galleries around the world from France to Switzerland. In Switzerland his photographs were featured in the Musee de l’Elysee the largest photography museum in the world. His photographs have been collected and appreciated by best selling authors, artists, and some of the most famous photographers around the world.He has published three photography books: The Blue Ridge and Beyond, Visual Destination: The Blue Ridge Parkway, and Dirt Track Racing.
A Note from Bob
All my life I have been involved in photography, I have had a camera in my hands from the age of five. I found the camera uniquely fascinating in its ability to capture the moment. In later life, I have been inspired both from famous photographers, whom I count as my friends, to artists who excel in their technique. In photography I am constantly trying to blend both art and photography in one medium.
My goal is to share the beauty of the earth that means so much to me, and I hope to you.
Photo by Carol Turrentine
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In an Uncharted Country showcases award-winning stories about ordinary men and women in and around Rugglesville, Virginia, as they struggle to find places and identities in their families and the community. They experience natural disasters, a sun-worshipping cult, Vietnam flashbacks, kidnapping, addiction, and loss. The book’s opening story, “Flood, 1978,” follows Hank, who comes to understand his father’s deep sense of grief over the death of his wife. Later, in “Hand-painted Angel,” Hank’s sons see the family spinning apart as their father ages and family secrets are disclosed. In “The Clattering of Bones,” Walt mourns the collapse of his marriage after the loss of a child, but in the collection’s title story he recognizes his emotional need for family. The concluding story, “Red Peony,” unifies the collection, as many of the characters from other stories come together for a tumultuous 4th of July Celebration.
Winner of the IPPY Gold Medal for Mid-Atlantic--Best Regional Fiction 2010, and the Maria Thomas Fiction Award.
