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Russell Persson lives in Reno, Nevada. His first novel, The Way of Florida, was published in 2017 by Little Island Press, and was reprinted in 2025 by Baobab Press. His work has appeared in The Quarterly, Unsaid Magazine, 3AM Magazine, Egress Magazine and other publications.
""In this sublime essay collection, novelist Persson (The Way of Florida) interrogates the unreliability and inventiveness of historical memory ... This astonishes."" –Publishers Weekly, starred review ""The serpentine sentences of this dazzling collection echo the connections that emerge between its subjects: memory and forgetting, love and loss, embodied genealogies of legacy and inheritance (the never simple passing down from fathers to sons of, say, admiration or resentment, the angle of a hairline or the precise timbre in which certain words might be spoken). Persson tells stories for which no other cartography can exist, recalls or imagines narratives that won't be verified, explores the myriad ways in which painting, drawing, photography and music might intervene in flows of meaning or in the construction of time. With memory a kind of erasure, and forgetfulness an ever-creative force, Persson gives us a twisting grammar of joyful tumblings. This is a book to read again and again."" –Tom Jeffreys, editor of Walking: Documents of Contemporary Art and author of The White Birch
