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News About Our Talented Team

Billy Lombardo, PHS Co-founder and Artistic Director publishes his first novel, The Man With Two Arms.

The Man with Two Arms opens in a bedroom in a suburb just west of Chicago, where Henry Granville, a young high school teacher, is reading The Natural to his pregnant wife, Lori, while rubbing cocoa butter on her belly. On this evening the application of the lotion turns to love making and urges on the birth of their son, Danny.

When Danny is thirteen months old, he surprises his father with a left-handed throw, and Henry Granville's two great obsessions in life, baseball and animal behavior, swirl together as he begins to believe he has caught Danny in a window of ambidexterity. Henry sets his son on a life-long symmetry campaign that has physical and visionary implications ostensibly beyond their control.

The Man with Two Arms is more than a baseball novel. It is an exploration of friendship, marriage, and philosophy; of balance, art, and love. It is a story of the ways in which we protect, betray, forgive, love, and shape each other as we attempt to find our way through life.

Billy is also the author of The Logic of the Rose, Meanwhile Roxy Mourns, and the upcoming The Day of the Palindrome. For more about his work, check out his webpage www.billylombardo.com

Co-Editor in Chief, Shelby Brody featured in Chicago Magazine, "Eight Teen Dreams" September 2009
Writing a novel requires intense discipline and self-assurance. That eliminates most teenagers from the trade. Not Shelby Brody, a junior at the Latin School of Chicago, who completed the fifth draft of her first novel, Jennifer Sharp, this past spring. “After this next draft, I want to send it out and try and do things with it,” says Brody. “I think it’ll be ready.”

to read the entire interview with Shelby, click here

Co-Editor is Chief, Seth Perlman, wins an honorable mention for his creative non-fiction piece,
"On Being a Cynic on November 4, 2008"

Author Alex Kotlowitz (Never a City So Real, The Other Side of the River, and There Are No Children Here) writes:

"Seth Perlman knows how to tell a story. He does it with grace and eloquence--and a keen eye for detail."

Editor Andrea Villaraga wins the Claudia Ann Seaman Award for Fiction for her short story, "Death By Ramona."

Author Stephanie Kuehnert (I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone and Ballads of Suburbia) writes:

"Death By Ramona is an incredibly visceral tale that turns convention on its ear. It's the kind of story that you not only see in your mind's eye, but feel in your fingertips, your gut, even your teeth. Andrea Villaraga has a real way with words, epecially when it comes to evoking sensation and raw emotion."

To read Andrea's story, click here