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Excerpts from SWEETWATER AMERICAN have been published in short story form in The Saint Ann’s Review, Bathtub Gin, Thought Magazine, Rosebud Magazine, Sundry: A Journal of the Arts, In Posse Review, Small Spiral Notebook, and Slow Trains Magazine.

Prose from the novel has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and won third place in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers.

 “Eileen Cruz Coleman’s stories are written with warmth and authority.  They bring alive a world of Latino immigrants, many from El Salvador, who struggle to hold families together, and prosper, in an urban conclave near Washington D.C.  Ms. Coleman’s characters love fiercely, test their Catholic faith hourly, and experience grave disappointment–triumph-in tale after tale.  Ms. Coleman writes confidently, and clearly, and always with feeling.” –C. Michael Curtis, Senior Editor, The Atlantic Monthly

Over the course of a few years, Eileen worked on a documentary film with Ed Sanchez, co-director of The Blair Witch Project.  The film, itself, was never made.  But out of it came, SWEETWATER AMERICAN.

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