Steve Fellner Explores the Practical Dimensions of Social Justice and Equity in His New Memoir, All Screwed Up

Murder attempts...missing umbilical cords...haunted quarries...fat camps -- these darkly comic stories fill the pages of All Screwed Up. Steve Fellner's engaging memoir won the Benu Press Award for Creative Non-Fiction judged by Peggy Schumaker.

(PRWEB) June 25, 2009 -- Steve Fellner explores the practical dimensions of social justice and equity in his new memoir, All Screwed Up. This book won the Benu Press Award for Creative Non-Fiction judged by Peggy Schumaker.

Murder attempts… missing umbilical cords… haunted quarries… fat camps… these darkly comic stories fill the pages of All Screwed Up. Young, gay, and poor, Steve Fellner attempts to shed his trailer park past and seize a better life for himself. But coming from the sticks offers a certain kind of freedom: no one expects anything from you, so you can be as wild and ridiculous as you want. Fellner's humorous and touching memoir centers on his odd relationship with his mother, a woman who was once a championship trampolinist and is now a champion of the unpredictable.

By turns laugh-out-loud funny and gut wrenching, All Screwed Up might make you wish you'd never been normal. This book is not simply a gay memoir of family dysfunction but instead a roaring, unflinching celebration of a boy's life--a complicated, bizarre, poverty-stricken, heroic and sometimes tragic one in the margins of Midwestern America.

Wry, edgy, simultaneously vulnerable and aggressive, these delicious vignettes of a warped childhood will surely appeal to connoisseur of the new nonfiction, of which Steve Fellner is assuredly one of the young masters.

"Wry, edgy, simultaneously vulnerable and aggressive, these delicious vignettes of a warped childhood will surely appeal to connoisseur of the new nonfiction, of which Steve Fellner is assuredly one of the young masters."- Robin Hemley, author of Do-Over and Nola, A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness

About the Author
Steve Fellner is the author of a book of poems, Blind Date with Cavafy, the winner of the Thom Gunn Gay Male Poetry Award. His non-fiction has appeared in The Sun, North American Review, among others.

About Benu Press
Benu Press is a small, independent press committed to publishing poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. It seeks to publish inspiring and thought-provoking books about the practical dimensions of social justice and equity. For more information, and to learn about this year's competition: http: www.benupress.com

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