Kirkus Discoveries says this about Thirty Below: ..".when Groome tests his characters, human and animal, against the wilderness, he moves us with the harshness and beauty of an uncivilized world. The result is a gripping portrait of life stripped to the bare essentials."
About the author
HARRY GROOME spends every night he can sleeping in a lean-to in the Adirondack Mountains with his canine literary advisors; for Harry it's usually a two dog night. His short stories, poems and articles have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies and have won several awards. Visit Harry's website at www.harrygroome.com
Ursula Vaira's poems have been published in literary journals and in anthologies. The long poem, "Frog River," was published as a chapbook and is forthcoming in the Portage Anthology. The title poem of her collection, "And See What Happens," was a finalist
in the CBC Literary Competition and was published in slightly different form as a chapbook called "A Thousand Miles". "Last One to Get There" was published in a chapbook titled "Little Espinoza".
Ursula worked at Oolichan Books for ten years then founded her own publishing house, Leaf Press, in 2001.
