World Like A Knife

by Ellen Akins

'World Like A Knife': It cuts both ways. These are the stories of people whose perception, dulled by the everyday or honed by the extraordinary event, have the power to set them free or send them spinning out of control.

144 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1991

About the author

Ellen Akins is the author of the novels Home Movie, Little Woman, Public Life, and Hometown Brew, and the short story collection World Like a Knife. She has published short stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, and The Southwest Review, which (the last two) awarded her their biennial short fiction awards. Her work has also appeared in the online publications Perigee and Serving House Journal. She has written reviews for numerous publications and is a regular contributor to The Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Akins is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Whiting Foundation, the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Wisconsin Arts Board. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.