The winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Double-Check for Sleeping Children is the newest work by award-winning writer Kirstin Allio

KIRSTIN ALLIO is author of Garner, Buddhism for Western Children, and her first story collection Clothed, Female Figure is a winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Competition.

“Formally daring, relentlessly probing, Kirstin Allio’s writing heaves the reader into a world of predation and initiation, habit and sally. Double-Check for Sleeping Children joins the ranks of singular short story collections such as Jayne Anne Phillips’s Black Tickets and Garielle Lutz’s Stories in the Worst Way. I was floored by this book.”
—JoAnna Novak, author of Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood

". . . Like the stick chart on its cover, Double-Check for Sleeping Children maps patterns, disruptions, and swells, leaving a framework of clues by which to navigate a bravely shared journey."
—Necessary Fiction