Tiger Burning Bright
Acknowledgments
One of the nicest things for me about publishing my first book is this chance to
thank people who helped me along the way:
I am grateful to Mark Wisniewski—brilliant author and editor, mentor nonpareil.
To Stephen King, whose On Writing gave me permission to write fiction and
explained how to do it.
To the three artists who, above all others, taught me to see and inspired me to
recreate what I saw—however inadequately—in the writing of fiction: Diane Arbus,
Ingmar Bergman and Annie Leibovitz.
For the extraordinary talent of Tom Jenks.
And the fine vision and exquisite sensitivity of Jan Bono.
To Professor David Everett, brilliant and dedicated Director of the M. A. in Writing
Program at Johns Hopkins.
To Professors William Black, Mark Farrington, Marc Lapadula, Ed Perlman and
Tim Wendel for the highest standards of excellence in teaching in the M.A. in
Writing Program at Johns Hopkins.
With special thanks to Professor Mark Farrington, my supremely competent,
supportive and patient Fiction Advisor at Johns Hopkins.
For access to the genius of Marc Lapadula—with kudos to Jami Lapadula, his
gorgeous and gracious wife. Professor Lapadula teaches at Johns Hopkins and
Yale.
To Professor John T. Irwin, Decker Professor in the Humanities in The Writing
Seminars at Johns Hopkins.
To the indefatigable Dan Wickett, literary superhero, champion of emerging writers
everywhere.
To Lorian Hemingway, brilliant, talented, compassionate, steadfast in her stellar
support of emerging writers.
Special thanks to David MaGee and Henry Oehmig at Jefferson Press for
believing in my work.
To David Jones for designing the cover of Tiger Burning Bright.
To Phil Wagner and Iconoclast Magazine for publishing the title story,
“Tiger Burning Bright,” and to Paul Fahey and Mindprints for publishing my first
fiction ever.
Warm and special thanks to Tom Franklin, William Gay and Wyatt Prunty.
For Pushcart Prize nominations by Rosa Martha Villarreal at Tertulia Magazine
for “Fire and Ice,” by Mary Carroll-Hackett at The Dos Passos Review for
“Wish You Were Here,” and by David MaGee at Jefferson Press for "Tiger
Burning Bright" and "Auction."
To Authors Guild for all the wonderful things they do for writers.
To Otis Chandler for building a warm and welcoming home at Goodreads for
readers and writers all over the world.
To Stephen D. Kelly—an enormously gifted writer whose name you will get to
know and whose sharp and insightful critiques improved my writing.
To Dr. Stefan Schreier, my oldest and most valued friend, for all the years of
simply being there for me.
To Dr. Milo Wolff, author of Schroedinger's Universe and the man with the highest
I.Q. in this universe.
I have deep appreciation for supporters who gave me encouragement and
invaluable criticism, or who simply opened a door and let me in:
Jacob M. Appel, Aydin M. Akgün, The Authors Guild, Yvonne Battle-Felton,
Susan Anthony and the late Frank Anthony, Sven Birkerts at AGNI, Matt Boswell,
Debra Booth, Sonny Brewer, George Brosi at Appalachian Heritage,
Susan Burmeister-Brown and Linda Swanson-Davies at Glimmer Train, ByLine
Magazine, Joyce Carper, Sara Cochin, Celeste Crenshaw, Joseph Holmes Dague,
Sue Eisenfeld, Thomas Gabriel-Ventimiglia, Jacqueline Gaulin, Jordan Gilles,
Crystal Hendricks, Tanya Taliese Holmes, Laurel Johnson, Brooke Kenny,
Eugene Kim, Mary Sue Koeppel and Robert B. Gentry at the Writecorner Press
E. M. Koeppel Short Fiction Awards, Nathan Leslie, Theresa Monsey,
Chris Murphy, Shannon O’Neill, Ché Parker, Janelle Patton, Richard Peabody,
The Poetry Society of Virginia, Poets & Writers Magazine, Marcia Preston,
Michelle Richmond, Brett Alan Sanders, Jason Sanford at storySouth,
Eduardo Santiago, Carol Shaughnessy, Daniel Talbot, Charles Talkoff,
Ruth C. Taylor, Christina Tucker,Virginia Commission for the Arts,
Mary Carolyn Voght, Edythe Wise, Writer’s Digest and Howard G. Zaharoff.
And a special place in my heart for the editors who published my work:
Cairn, Ian D. Wallace
Cantaraville, Cantara Christopher and Michael Matheny
The Dos Passos Review, Mary Carroll-Hackett
The Dublin Quarterly, Peter Anny-Nzekwue, Niall Keane
The Edgar Literary Magazine, Sue Mayfield-Geiger
The GSU Review, Jody Brooks, Chris Bundy
The Iconoclast, Phil Wagner
The MacGuffin, Elizabeth Kircos, Nausheen S. Khan
Mindprints, Paul Fahey
New Works Review, Brett Alan Sanders, Jonathan Sanders and Tim Healy
Perigee, Robert Judge Woerheide, Susan Fellows
Pindeldyboz, Whitney Pastorek, Wells Oliver, Josh Kron
Sanskrit, Denise Anatrella
Slow Trains, Susannah Indigo
Sound and Literary Art Book, Michael Goodwin, Teresa Pershing
Southern Hum, Jessicca Vidrine
Sugar Mule, Marc L. Weber
Taj Mahal Review, Santosh Kumar, Karunesh Kumar Agrawal
Terra Incognita, Robert J. Lavigna
Tertulia Magazine, Rosa Martha Villarreal
Willard & Maple, Jim Ellefson
Writers Post Journal, Jacqueline Druga-Johnston
I thank you, my readers, for your loyalty, your letters, and your gracious gift of
simply being there for me and my work.
Most of all, I am grateful for the love and devotion of Bick, Claire and Maria—
the most brilliant and beautiful daughters a mother could ever have.
God bless you all.
Arlene Sanders
Blue Ridge Mountains
September, 2008
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