Julian Hoffman's book manuscript, The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World, is the winner of the 2012 AWP Award Series for Creative Nonfiction. Described by the judge Terry Tempest Williams as "a tapestry of embodied stories," the book will be published by the University of Georgia Press in 2013. Along with winning the 2011 Terrain.org Nonfiction Prize, his writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in Kyoto Journal, EarthLines, Southern Humanities Review, Flyway, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Cold Mountain Review, Three Coyotes, and The Redwood Coast Review. Julian lives beside the Prespa Lakes in northern Greece, and you can learn more about him at www.julian-hoffman.com

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