"The shadows of the dying sun touched the mansions, street after street of them, the delicate engulfing leaves of the slowly diminishing light made them seem frozen even harder in the courtship of results which spawned their triumphs and frailties that could be traced to men in plumed hats and silver buckled shoes who listened to the Ottawa, their stories of fresh water seas and beaver waiting to be skinned by the millions, a cauldron of ghosts and death and riches that would spew and possess everything lying before it. "   

Excerpt from "It Might Do Well With Strawberries"

David Matlin is a novelist, poet and essayist. His collections of prose include "How The Night Is Divided" which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, "Prisons Inside The New America: from Vernooykill Creek to Abu Ghraib" and "It Might Do Well With Strawberries." His collections of poetry and prose include "China Beach," "Dressed in Protective Fashion'" and "Fontana's Mirror." His next Novel, "A Halfman Dreaming" is being published by Red Hen Press. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.

The author is a native Californian and received his Ph.D from the State University of New York at Buffalo where he studied with Robert Creeley, John Clarke, Angus Fletcher and others.