Steve Sherwood won the 2003 TRP George Garrett Fiction Prize with his novel Hardwater. His latest book of stories and personal essays will appear in 2014. Steve is the director of the William L. Adams Center for Writing at Texas Christian University, USA, where he has taught writing courses since 1988.
"In this well-conceived and vivid manuscript, the charming Aldo
Springer, Chief Park Ranger at Fort Pawnee National Historic Site
in Kansas, is in the awkward position of providing cover for Amanda
Lowenthal, a 28-year-old escapee from the Pawnee State Hospital for
the criminally insane, who murdered her family when she was
fourteen. This is a genuinely successful piece of storytelling and
character development. It's humorous and well-paced and structures
plausible scenes of intensity and moments of tenderness."
--Publisher's Weekly-- "Publisher's Weekly"
"Steve Sherwood's finely crafted No Asylum is about escape. Those
who escape justice need to be imprisoned. Those in prisons, most
often of their own making, need to escape. Aldo Springer, a
National Park Service ranger, divorced, banished from his beloved
Rocky Mountains to the Fort Pawnee National Historic site in
Kansas, and loathed by his superintendent, lives without much hope.
Serving time in this purgatory, a particularly hot summer in
Kansas, he learns to act on his instincts, broaden his heart, take
chances, and escape to the small slice of heaven he can create from
truth, trust, and love."
--Thomas Fox Averill
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