Superior Stories

<p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Superior Stories winner of the 2025 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest in fiction is a series of six short stories which explore the lives of people who live in the northernmost part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula the Keweenaw.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)> Bryan Gruley (award-winning author of </span><em style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Bitterfrost Starvation Lake</em><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)> and other novels) notes In her linked story collection 'Superior Stories' Helen Raica-Klotz takes readers deep into the physical and emotional lives of regular people trying and often failing to do the right thing--for themselves their families their friends and their northern Michigan worlds. Raica-Klotz conjures evocative settings and richly layered up-north characters with language that is at once concrete and elegiac painting a hard yet enchanting landscape of tarpaper roofs black ice and hoar frost-a travelogue of human hope and grief aspiration and desperation.</span></p>