“I’ve been shouting it for years, but now I’ll shout it louder: William Luvaas, my friends, is a wild-eyed genius.”
– Lauren Groff, National Book Award Finalist
“William Luvaas’s brilliant new collection of short stories, Ashes Rain Down: A Story Cycle, is a wildly inventive and epic comedy of prophetic visions, and a masterpiece of fiction for our own modern times.”
– Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post – Book of the Year
“The sheer scope of the author’s imagination, and the almost impossibly delicate poetic weight of his prose, has made the discovery of William Luvaas’s writing one of the genuine joys of my reading-year. He is a remarkable writer, comfortably among the finest at work in America today.”
– Billy O’Callaghan, Irish Book Award-winning author of The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind
“Heat, flies, wind and even ghosts form the eerie landscape of Luvaas’s extraordinary collection about love, hope and the stubborn resistance of humans even in the face of doom. Jaw-droppingly brilliant and downright transcendent.”
– Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of Pictures of You
“The musings of a gifted ironist, a jubilantly dark comedian, a compelling writer whose mind is filled with prophetic visions about a future entirely possible–credibly even inevitable.”
– Duff Brenna, LA Review of Books
“A mother drowning in alcohol drags her whole family down in William Luvaas’s powerful novel.
– New York Times Book Review
“Going Under is told with power and authority as it explores a family’s collapse into self-destruction and abuse. Luvaas’s great power as a storyteller brings the reader up out of these sorrows and into a sense of redemption that is triumphant and true.”
– Frederick Busch, author of Sometimes I Live in the
Country and Long Way From Home
Recent publications:
“Have You Seen Me” Cimarron Review
“Struggling With My Other Self” Chicago Quarterly Review
“Leave Me Alone” Pangyrus
Photo credits: Lucinda Luvaas
Cover designs For Foreveland Press novels, Ashes Rain Down and Beneath The Coyote Hills: Lucinda Luvaas
Website design: Abel Alejandre
