Liza Kleinman

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Liza Kleinman is a writer living in Portland, Maine.

Her fiction has appeared in Redbook, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Hudson Review,
Portland Magazine
,
The Hawai'i Review, and The Greensboro Review



Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from the Hudson Review

Writes of Passage collects the best tales of growing-up published in the Hudson Review
In addition to works by Tennessee Williams and Wendell Berry, this collection features
Liza Kleinman's story "What Went Wrong"

    Childhood, as I remember it, is a tangle of shifting allegiances.  It is a series of passionate friendships,
    each as heavy as the last with the promise of immortality.




Praise for Liza Kleinman from the editors of The Summerset Review:

...we do want to say these elements are all present in a wonderful work we read in the Summer 2005 issue of Hayden's Ferry Review, a story by Liza Kleinman entitled "Trompe L'Oeil." It's the tale of a father whose son is soon to be taken away by his mother. The story is carried by a surreal "game" of sorts the father and son play, transforming the boy's bedroom into a café, the boy a waiter Mario, the father a diner. The sprinkled sentences that pull the reader in come by way of cleverly-acted dialogue...