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BEV MAGENNIS
BEV MAGENNIS was born in Toronto, Canada, and immigrated to the United States in 1964. She received her MA in art from the Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California. After a thirty-five-year career as an artist, she started writing, inspired by the land and people in the New Mexico wilderness where she lived for seventeen years. In 2009 she was accepted to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Summer Graduate Class and in 2010 was awarded an eight-month Pen USA Emerging Voices Fellowship. In 2011 she received a Norman Mailer Writers Colony Fiction Fellowship. She lives in New Mexico.
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
ALIBI CREEK
A Novel
Following a two-year prison stint, charming and wily Walker returns to his family’s New Mexico ranch, where his pious older sister Lee Ann is busy caring for their mother, raising two sons, and grappling with unethical workplace demands. As Walker’s reckless life careens into Lee Ann’s careful one, a drastic transformation of beliefs, identities, and relationships ensues. Alibi Creek explores the weight of sibling bonds, the healing power of place, and one woman’s rebirth in the wild and fragile landscape surrounding the small-town Southwest.
“Superb, spellbinding. . . . [Magennis’s] imagery and its foreshadowing impact echoes the cumulative practice of a well-honed artistic eye.”
—THE UTAH REVIEW
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