Normandi Ellis, Trans.

Awakening Osiris: the Egyptian Book of the Dead

Fresh Fleshed Sisters is an anthology of dreams and fantasies, myths of America, parables of the Space Age, love among the ruins. Whatever you call it, it's a deft account of people getting on with the sublime and often messy adventure of living, an assembly of vignettes magically transformed into narratives, frisky and wry, reminding us that the world about us is a compilation of memory seasoned by moments of transcendence, self-revelation, and humor. Normandi Ellis is the author of six books. Her collection of short stories, Sorrowful Mysteries and Other Stories, won the 1991 Bumbershoot Award. Her most recent collected short short fiction, Fresh-Fleshed Sisters, was published by Wind Publications in 2007. A translator of hieroglyphs she has also published Awakening Osiris, (translations from the Egyptian Book of the Dead), which have been translated into Portuguese, Korean, and Russian. Her nonfiction books on ancient Egyptian spirituality -- Dreams of Isis and Feasts of Light, nonfiction. Normandi has received grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the National Association of Poetry Therapy, YMCA Writers Voice of America, and the Kentucky Arts Council, which also awarded her an Al Smith Fellowship. Currently, she edits the Berea College Magazine.

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