Glass Grapes and Other Stories is the first full-length collection of short stories by distinguished American poet, Martha Ronk. Martha Ronk writes fiction with the same grace, beauty, and attention to language as her most accomplished poetry. Focusing on her characters' fixations in ways that alternate between wry, comic, and heartbreaking, Ronk lays bare the inner-workings of an obsessive psyche. The result is a trip through the minds of acutely aware, fiercely intelligent, and utterly consumed characters.