Lisa Teasley's Glow in the Dark, a startlingly edgy, seductive debut collection of short stories, travels from New York to Northern California, Mexico, Los Angeles and Paris, dropping us dead center into the lives of those whose extreme behavior has led them to the threshold of significant transition.

Among the many intriguing, unique individuals, there is Marty wrestling with sobriety and his unspeakable obsession; Gita trying to conduct the love triangle she orchestrated; the frustrated lover, Tim, attempting to wedge himself between his girlfriend and her brother; and the surf chick Magda, tightrope-walking in her circus of drugs, opportunistic men and the waves of Baja California.

Finely crafted and painstakingly wrought, each of these 12 stories is a stunningly powerful, dynamic look into lives at the breaking point.

“Teasley writes with a daring and original voice...Glow in the Dark is an unusually assured first story collection, and Lisa Teasley deserves high praise for giving the American short story an honest and original shot in the arm.”  
        San Francisco Chronicle

Glow in the Dark is published by Bloomsbury, and available at your local independent bookstore, as well as www.barnesandnoble.com and www.amazon.com. The Bloomsbury paperback release was August 2006.