~JOANNA CATHERINE SCOTT~
Author Website
(rough but functional, as they say in the classics)
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Contact me at: sekoongjhe@alumni.duke.edu FAINTING AT THE UFFIZI Nonfiction
About Me
Novels
CHILD OF THE SOUTH (working title)
A sequel to The Road from Chapel Hill
Pending from Penguin
Read Chapter 1
THE ROAD FROM CHAPEL HILL
A Book Sense/SIBA Southern Literary Bestseller
Three young Southerners take the Union side in Civil War North Carolina.
Inspired by the true story of a slave from Chapel Hill.
Read an Excerpt
Listen to an interview
CASSANDRA, LOST
"Compelling"—Boston Globe . . ."Spellbinding"—Booklist
A Maryland heiress elopes with a lieutenant from General Rochambeau's French army.
Inspired by a true story.
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THE LUCKY GOURD SHOP
Nominee for Book Sense Book-of-the-Year
A Korean woman gives up her children for adoption .
Inspired by the true story of my Korean children's birth mother.
Read an Excerpt
CHARLIE
A Vietnam Veteran's Association Book-of-the-Month
An American GI fathers a son in Vietnam and is captured by the Viet Cong.
Inspired by a true story.
(Originally published as Charlie and the Children)
Read about the inspiration for this novel
Poetry
NIGHT HUNTRESS
Pending from Main Street Rag, Spring 2008
Poems of loss, grief and resolution following the drunk driving death of a young friend.
Includes 'Rain, Blue Ridge Mountains,' winner of the Rita Dove Poetry Award.
To pre-order: http://www.mainstreetrag.com/store/ComingSoon.php
Winner of the Brockman-Campbell Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society
Ekphrastic poems set in Florence, Italy.
BREAKFAST AT THE SHANGRI-LA
Winner of the Black Zinnias Book Award from the California Institute of Arts and Letters
Poems of adoption from the adoptive mother's point of view.
A lyrical companion to The Lucky Gourd Shop.
INDOCHINA'S REFUGEES: ORAL HISTORIES FROM LAOS, CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM
"A rare book"—Journal of Refugee Studies . . ."Unique"—SE Asian Refugee Studies
Stories of people who fled the Communists after the US left Vietnam.
From interviews at the refugee camp in Bataan, Philippines.
Author Appearances
Praise from Critics
Links to Some Poems etc.
Joanna Catherine Scott sponsored contests:
Novel Excerpt
Formal Poetry
