Letitia Trent grew up in Vermont and Oklahoma and spent her teenage years traveling with her flea-marketing parents. She received her MFA in poetry from Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Denver Quarterly, Fence, Folio, The Journal, Blazevox, and The Black Warrior Review. Her poetry collections include One Perfect Bird (2012) and You aren't in this movie (2012). She was the 2010 winner of the Alumni Flash Writing Award from the Ohio State University's The Journal and has been awarded fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center and the MacDowell Colony.
Trent's years as a poet serve her well in this heavily atmospheric
novel, which deftly conjures up both evil and the small town's
complicit reluctance to face its past.
-- Kirkus Reviews Echo Lake is more than just a good debut novel.
It is the coming-out party for Letitia Trent, the new poet-queen of
neo-noir.
-- Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk "In Echo Lake, Letitia
Trent, with deceptively simple, beautiful language, creates a small
American town slowly self destructing under the weight of its
secrets. Trent illuminates the mystery of family and community, the
pain of loss, all the while spinning a tale of murder and suspense.
It's at turns a lovely and bone chilling read."
-- Paula Bomer, author of Inside Madeleine "In Echo Lake, Trent's
small town characters guard their secrets, and warn their children
away from the mist-covered lake. Dark, ominous, and lyrical, Echo
Lake is a beautiful exploration of loss, and the menace of
deceptive surfaces."
-- Karen Brown, author of The Longings of Wayward Girls "Trent's
debut novel combines a ripping good scare with prose as rich as
dark verse. Her characters wear the imprint of the past like livid
bruises, the bravest among them untangling their distorted
histories to discover truths about the nature of community, family
and self.
-- Sophie Littlefield, author of House of Glass Echo Lake itself is
perhaps the most memorable aspect of Echo Lake; Trent builds it up
to be a truly eerie setting, a body of sickly water that is as
haunting as it is haunted, where one cannot go swimming without
risk of injury, thanks to the debris that lies just under the
surface, and the fumes that pour out of it at night.
-- Monkeybicycle
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