Circling Toward Home: Grassroots Baseball Prose, Meditations, and Images

Meissner, Bill: - St. Cloud, Mn. writer and teacher Bill Meissner is the author of eleven books. His newest collection, a book of short stories with a baseball theme, is Light at the Edge of the Field (Stephen F. Austin University Press). His five collections of poetry include American Compass (U. of Notre Dame Press), Learning to Breathe Underwater and The Sleepwalker's Son (Ohio U. Press) and Twin Sons of Different Mirrors (Milkweed Editions). His latest book of poetry, The Mapmaker's Dream (Finishing Line Press, 2019).Bill's novel, Spirits in the Grass (U. of Notre Dame Press), won the Midwest Book Award. His forthcoming novel, set in the turbulent late 1960s, is Summer of Rain, Summer of Fire. His two books of short stories are Hitting into the Wind (Random House Publishers/SMU Press Paperback/Dzanc Press ebook) and The Road to Cosmos ( University of Notre Dame Press paperback and ebook). Bill's hobbies and interests include travel, rock music, baseball, photography, pulp fiction magazines, and collecting (too many) vintage typewriters. He has taught creative writing at St. Cloud State U., and frequently presents workshops at local elementary schools, high schools and colleges as a visiting writer. He lives in Saint Cloud with his wife, Christine.