The Writers of Wales Database

GHOLSON, CHRISTIEN

Christien Gholson is an American born writer currently living in the Wales. His stories, both literary and speculative, have appeared in many magazines and literary journals, including The Sun, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Cimarron Review and the influential speculative magazine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.

He has been a union organizer, bookseller, cartoonist, teacher, itinerant poet-musician and freelance editor. He grew up in a navy family, never settling in one place for very long, a pattern he has continued as an adult. His childhood years in Italy, the swamps of Florida, and in Belgium – where he spent weekends riding his bike through the alternating industrial and pastoral landscape – have deeply influenced his art. 


Selected Publications
On the Side of the Crow (Hanging Loose Press, 2006).
A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind (Parthian, 2011)
 

A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind (Parthian, 2011)

This is the story of A Fish Trapped inside the Wind.  

It all begins in a small town in Belgium near the French border on the morning of the festival of St. Woelfred. There are dead fish scattered everywhere seemingly blown in by the wind. The empty quarries of Villon are soon to be used as toxic waste dumps. Are the fish a sign from the saint or a trick played by Contexture, the dance group who once got naked at the Vatican?

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