Fiction Writer
Stories that stay
close to the water.
Iris Calloway writes novels and stories set along the disappearing edges of the Southern coast — about the families who stay, the ones who leave, and the almanacs they keep of each.
The Books
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The Almanac of Leaving
A family almanac, kept for six generations, predicts weather, harvests — and the exact year each family member will leave home for good. The seventh generation is the first to ask why anyone kept score.
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About the Author
Iris Calloway grew up in a fishing family on the North Carolina coast, and most of what she writes is an argument with the place she left.
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