<DIV><p>“When Susan Richards writes about horses and the interactions of the people involved with them, she brilliantly captures the characters, equine and human.”—Maxine Kumin</p><p>Strong, startling, funny—these stories are rich in their feeling for the human, natural, and sometimes supernatural world of Kentucky.</p><p><b>Susan Starr Richards</b> has spent most of her life raising racehorses in central Kentucky, and writing. She has been a NEA Fellow in Fiction. Her stories have appeared in <i>The Kenyon Review</i>, <i>The Sewanee Review</i>, <i>Shenandoah</i>, <i>The Southern Review</i>, and in <i>Thoroughbred Times</i>, as winner of their first National Fiction Prize.</p></DIV>