About Face

Cecile Rossant’s About Face is an eclectic jumble of short fiction, ranging in length from three and a half lines to 23 pages, sucks you in under the pretence of being short stories and before you know it, lo-and-behold, you realize you’re reading a poem. It may not always look like a poem, or even sound like one, but Rossant’s writing is so beautiful, so lyrical that by the end of the collection there is no doubt: poetry it must be.

A student of biology, sculpture and architecture, Cecile Rossant moved from New York to Tokyo, and finally Berlin, working as an architect in all three cities. She is the author of the collection of short fiction, About Face, (Red Hen Press 2004). Her stories have also appeared in Salt Hill, Exberliner, Bordercrossings and the anthology of contemporary fiction, The Crucifix is Down (Red Hen Press 2005).