Description

Available beginning late fall 2026! Orders placed will ship when book is available.

The Moose Depart

By Bill Gillard

ABOUT THE BOOK

Spanning genres and themes—science fiction, fantasy, myth, flash, time travel—these lyrical and tender stories push past easy assumptions about what it means to live a good life. They take readers on a journey from long before birth to youth, adulthood, old age, and whatever comes next.

“Dark, humorous, gritty, weird, unexpected, and oddly satisfying.”-Tara Caribou, Raw Earth Ink

Author Bill Gillard is the author of many books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including the recently released If the River Dies, an ecologically-themed fantasy novel. Other recent books include The Wrong Shadow (a ghost story collection), If a Clod Be Washed (a verse novel), and Concept Album (a verse novel). His scholarly books include Psycho Century (a literary biography of the Wisconsin author Robert Bloch) and The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction (short stories from the earliest days of climate change fiction). He teaches at UW Oshkosh and looks after an unruly garden and several noisy birdhouses in Appleton where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Learn more about him at billgillard.com