When Pluto was a Planet: The Golphin Chronicles

by Vincent F.A. Golphin (editor)

When Pluto Was A Planet: The Golphin Chronicles is a treasure trove for genre fiction fans or fiction-writer wannabes. The anthology of 21 short stories by Rochester Institute of Technology Creative Writing Fiction Workshop students includes tales about everything from distant planets and time travel to lost loves and friendships. The development of the yarns was guided and edited by Vincent F. A. Golphin an assistant professor in the Department of English.

The collection offers readers a wealth of entertainment for any season. Most of the authors' majors are in science or other technical fields,but their skills will surprise and inspire readers' imaginations to see or create worlds beyond our own.

236 pages, Paperback

First published August 7, 2007

About the author

After more than 30 years as a writer, journalist and educator, I am now an assistant professor in the Department of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology. With a doctorate in Creative Writing and Literary and Cultural Studies, I often teach fiction, nonfiction and advanced Creative Writing courses, African-American Literature, Literature and Religion and a wide range of other Cultural Studies courses such as African American Literature, Literature and Religion and Comics as Political and Cultural Literature. At the same time, I remain a writer.

My latest book, 10 Stories Down, a collection of poems inspired by two, six-month stays in Beijing, China, will be released by FootHills Press on Sept. 1, 2011. In 2007, I edited When Pluto Was A Planet: The Golphin Chronicles, a collection of short stories by RIT students, and Tales of a Summer, a brief volume of nonfiction by Rochester area high school students. My first book, Life and Other Things I Know: Poems, Essays and Short Stories, was published in 1999. Throughout the past eight years the list expanded to include: African American Children's Stories: A Treasury of Tradition and Pride, Grandma Loves You: My First Treasury, African American Stories: My First Treasury, Like A Dry Land: A Soul's Journey through the Middle East and contributions to Take Two, They're Small, an anthology of poems, memoir, essay and fiction on food. My poems, short stories and nonfiction has been published in a variety of publications that include Reporter Magazine, Washington Living, Drylongso, Fyah, MentalSatin, Pinnacle Hill Review, Bridges, Ishmael Reed's Konch Magazine, New Verse News, Mosaic, Invisble Universe, Southern Quarterly, UpandComing magazine, Yellow Medicine Review, and Escape Velocity.