The Birthday Picture: and Other Stories

By Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum and Briana Bloom

The Birthday Picture and Other Stories is a collection of genre-bending short fiction written by Alaskan author Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum

A publication of Red Sweater Press

These stories are the results of an imagination at work over a span of 10 years, from 2010 to 2020.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Sweater Press
• Release date: Aug 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9781087916118

Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum

Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum (also known as Cait Buxbaum) is a poet, photographer, novelist and "former" journalist born and raised in Alaska. She has a Master of Arts in Teaching Secondary English from University of Alaska Anchorage and a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese Studies and English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Gustavus Adolphus College. In her three years as a reporter, she wrote more than 600 stories for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman newspaper. She has published six books under her own imprint, Red Sweater Press, and has had work featured in Firethorne, Literary Juice and America's Emerging Writers: Pacific Region by Z Publishing.

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