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Finalist for the Seventh Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the Literary Fiction category

Traci Skuce's Hunger Moon is a collection of stories that echo with the yearning to be replenished, to be made full. Here are characters at cusp-points in their lives, attempting to shift their trajectories: to cease wrapping up their heart's desire in a pink bubble by launching it into the universe. Some turn to ESP, some to a belief in ghosts, some to the future caught inside a glass bottle, each character taking the hackneyed adage Follow Your Bliss too literally to blissfully follow their own storyline.

Emotional charged, evocative, and lush, Hunger Moon's thirteen short stories each set out on profound quests to satisfy an emotional hunger.

Traci Skuce graduated from the Pacific University low-residency MFA program in 2015. Her short stories and non-fiction have appeared in several publications across North America including New Ohio Review, The New Quarterly, and Prairie Fire, and have been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and two Journey prizes. "Because the Fall is in Two Weeks" was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Short Fiction, and she was first runner-up for PRISM international's 2019 Grouse Grind Very Short Forms contest. For the past twenty years, Traci has lived in Cumberland, BC with her husband and two sons.