novel Devils Island. Her writing has appeared in TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times magazine, Chicago Tribune, Poets & Writers, and many other publications. Raymond has taught at Boston University, Boston’s Grub Street Writers, Seattle’s Hugo House, and San Diego Writers, Ink. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she is co-founder of the boutique publisher Ashland Creek Press.
[The Page 69 Test: My Last Continent; Writers Read: Midge Raymond (June 2016)]
At The Nerd Daily Raymond tagged seven books that "feature tales of how the effects of isolation can lead humans to act in unexpected ways, for better or worse, as well as how it can help them discover who they truly are." One title on the list:
The Dolphin House by Audrey SchulmanRead about another book on the list.
In Audrey Schulman’s The Dolphin House, a young woman flees her Florida home after being sexually harassed at her job for the last time and travels to theisland of St. Thomas, where she comes across a man-made sluice leading into a lagoon that holds four wild dolphins. Cora, who is hard of hearing above water, hears very well underwater, and she gets into the water with the dolphins in order to hear them better. The resident scientists, who actually know very little about the dolphins, hire her immediately, and she connects with the animals in ways no one has before, learning about the dolphins, herself, and her place in the world. Inspired by a true story about dolphin research in St. Thomas in the 1960s, this novel portrays sexism, science, and animal intelligence in a beautiful tribute to the natural world.
--Marshal Zeringue
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