Background
Goldberry Long was born in 1967 in New Mexico, United States.
2012
Goldberry Long
507 N Clinton St, Iowa City, IA 52245, United States
Goldberry Long studied at the University of Iowa-Writers' Workshop.
2012
Goldberry Long
507 N Clinton St, Iowa City, IA 52245, United States
Goldberry Long studied at the University of Iowa-Writers' Workshop.
(Juniper Tree Burning is a dazzling meditation on legacy a...)
Juniper Tree Burning is a dazzling meditation on legacy and legend, rebellion, and renewal. When Jennie Braverman, formerly known as Juniper Tree Burning, gets news of her brother Sunny Boy Blue's suicide, she flees her new husband and embarks upon a mad dash across the American West toward the site of Sunny's death. Forced to confront the past, Jennie must face the shame of the childhood name she has been so happy to shed.
https://www.amazon.com/Juniper-Tree-Burning-Goldberry-Long/dp/0743222113
2001
Goldberry Long was born in 1967 in New Mexico, United States.
Goldberry Long attended the University of Iowa-Writers' Workshop.
Goldberry Long is an assistant professor in the Department of the Creative Writing University of California in Riverside. As a writer, she is a contributor of short stories to periodicals. Long published her debut novel in 2001 to generally warm acclaim. Juniper Tree Burning is composed of stories within stories: of relationships, communities, and names. The book is a 460-page journey through the life of protagonist Jennie Braverman, born Juniper Tree Burning to hippie parents in the 1970s.
Juniper/Jennie and her younger brother, Sunny Boy Blue, spent their childhoods in the desert of New Mexico in an adobe stable with no running water. They were dressed in used clothes and never visited doctors, but instead were "healed" with their parents' versions of Native American ceremonies. To say these children were neglected is optimistic they were the forgotten offspring of distracted parents. The bulk of the novel focuses on a grown-up Jennie, now married and a medical student, and how she handles her beloved brother's suicide. The reader is allowed glimpses into Jennie's past in the form of memories and recollections, told from her viewpoint. What emerges is the narrative of a journey through emotional abuse and the personal victories and failures of the victims.
Goldberry Long is best known as a writer. For her novel, Juniper Tree Burning, she earned the Hackney Literary Award in 2001. Additionally, Long is the 3rd-place winner of the Glimmer Train Press Very Short Fiction Award in 1998 for her writing, Heaven, and also a holder of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and the James Michener Fellowship. Long also has been honored with the University of California Riverside Innovative Teaching Award in 2012.
(Juniper Tree Burning is a dazzling meditation on legacy a...)
2001Quotations: "I teach students how to harness the writing process in a way that is productive for them. The reason I think students do so well in my classes is that they rise to the occasion. I think of the classroom as a community project - I am a participant in it and, so are they. I ask a lot of them, and they respond in dazzling ways."
