Hiding from Love

Reckless Wedding, Maria Flook's first collection of poems, was chosen for the Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Series in 1982 and it also received The Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. The New York Times wrote: "This poet has the power to see unexpected resemblances - a wonderfully unsettling mix of sexual contamination and back-attic mustiness." Maria Flook has published a second collection of poems, Sea Room, and four books of fiction. He first novel, Family Night, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, was awarded a PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Special Citation. She has also published two collections of short fiction, the a new novel, Open Water, about which the New Yorker wrote: "Flook has fashioned a beautiful book out of the unlikeliest elements."