The new novel from author Stephen Graf
Stephen’s latest novel, Nuka Bay, is a darkly comic adventure set in Alaska’s unforgiving waters. When young English teacher Jordan Plumley has a near-death experience and signs on to a commercial fishing boat, his search for “something more” becomes a high-stakes plunge into danger and self-discovery.
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Stephen Graf has more than thirty publication credits for short fiction and creative non-fiction including:Philadelphia Stories, AIM (Magazine), Cicada, The Southern Review, The Chrysalis Reader, Fiction, New Works Review, The Broadkill Review, SNReview, and The Black Mountain Review in Ireland, among others. His short fiction has won several Editor’s Choice awards, has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (awarded to the best short story published by an American small press), he was awarded an honorable mention in the Byline Flash Fiction contest and was a finalist in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open. His long short story “The Secret Life of Seals,” was published in weekly serial format in Straylight magazine online.
Stephen’s second novel, Nuka Bay, is a darkly comic action adventure set against the unforgiving backdrop of Alaska’s commercial fishing industry. When high school English teacher Jordan Plumley sets out in search of something beyond the confines of his classroom, he finds himself crewing on a fishing boat where every day is a gamble between survival and catastrophe. What begins as a quest for adventure soon spirals into an odyssey of danger. With biting dark humor and vivid storytelling, Nuka Bay delivers a tale as unpredictable and relentless as the sea itself.
Stephen has written multiple screenplays including “Three Hundred Years in Paradise”, “The Art of Taking a Dive”, each of which has placed in, or won, major international competitions.
Born in Pittsburgh, PA, where he currently resides, Stephen was an amateur boxing champion as a youth, has jumped out of airplanes and rappelled out of helicopters in the U.S. Army. He taught ESL in San Francisco and taught English and coached football at an inner-city high school in Oakland, CA. He worked on a commercial fishing boat out of Seward, Alaska, and worked for a public relations firm in Madrid, Spain, among other things. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University, holds a Masters Degree in Anglo-Irish Literature from Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland) and a Ph.D. in 20th century Irish Literature from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK. He currently teaches at a university in Pittsburgh and has published a number of scholarly essays, reviews, and interviews.
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