Karen Salyer McElmurray
Biographic Data
| ID | 6544698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Salyer McElmurray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen Salyer |
| FAMILY NAME | McElmurray |
| SIGNATURE | MCELMURRAY K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia Wesleyan College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Stella, In the Upstairs Room
Stella, In the Upstairs Room Karen Salyer Mcelmurray (bio) A story passed down to me from my mother's people was about a woman named Stella. During the 1930s, Stella, it was said, lived in an upstairs room at a brother's and never left the house. The historical facts are vague. She was a distant cousin of mine, or a great-aunt, and her sequestered life was in Dwale, Kentucky. I imagine her with long, [End Page 90] copper-colored hair, a braid win…
Holding On To Nothing by Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne
Reviewed by: Holding On To Nothing by Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne Karen Salyer McElmurray (bio) Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne . Holding On To Nothing. Durham, N.C.: Blair, 2019. 272 pages. Hardcover. $25.95. Years back, I heard a lecture by novelist Charles Baxter called "Making the Ordinary Extraordinary and the Extraordinary Ordinary in Fiction." Holding On To Nothing's ordinary world is a small east Tennessee town. I've been gone for too many year…
How We Know
Incredibly, it is nearing twenty years ago, but I remember the day with great clarity. I remember standing in front of a mirror in a bathroom across from the conference room where the oral examinat
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How We Know
Incredibly, it is nearing twenty years ago, but I remember the day with great clarity. I remember standing in front of a mirror in a bathroom across from the conference room where the oral examinat
Stella, In the Upstairs Room
Stella, In the Upstairs Room Karen Salyer Mcelmurray (bio) A story passed down to me from my mother's people was about a woman named Stella. During the 1930s, Stella, it was said, lived in an upstairs room at a brother's and never left the house. The historical facts are vague. She was a distant cousin of mine, or a great-aunt, and her sequestered life was in Dwale, Kentucky. I imagine her with long, [End Page 90] copper-colored hair, a braid win…
Holding On To Nothing by Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne
Reviewed by: Holding On To Nothing by Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne Karen Salyer McElmurray (bio) Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne . Holding On To Nothing. Durham, N.C.: Blair, 2019. 272 pages. Hardcover. $25.95. Years back, I heard a lecture by novelist Charles Baxter called "Making the Ordinary Extraordinary and the Extraordinary Ordinary in Fiction." Holding On To Nothing's ordinary world is a small east Tennessee town. I've been gone for too many year…
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