New Works from the Frontlines of Boston's Literary Death Match Ft. Elizabeth Searle and Matthew Salesses

The author of four books of fiction, including the Iowa Short Fiction Prize-winning My Body To You, Elizabeth Searle is also co-creator of Tonya and Nancy: The Rock Opera and winner of Boston's LDM (2010). In her newest novel, Girl Held in Home, a mother tries to deal with complex relationships, race, and fear after 9/11 while her teenage son tries to free a girl who may be trapped in a house full of terrorists. Tom Perrotta calls it "sexy, funny, creepy and highly enjoyable."

Matthew Salesses is the Fiction Editor and columnist for the Good Men Project. A featured reader at Boston's LDM 2011, Salesses is the author of two chap books and has had work in Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, and more. In his new novella, The Last Repatriate, he explores the mind of the last POW to repatriate to America after the Korean War. James Franco calls it, "a subtly painful psychological journey."