Aryn Kyle in The Atlantic, and Portland's Edgy Writing Conference

By Jenny Shank, 7-23-08 The Atlantic’s summer fiction issue is out, and it includes a new story by Missoula’s Aryn Kyle, who launched her career in that magazine in 2004 with ”Foaling Season,” which won a National Magazine Award. She later extended that story into her first novel, The God of Animals. Kyle’s new story, ”Nine," also features a young protagonist, and Kyle’s deft way with children as characters is one of the subjects of an interview by Jessica Murphy Moo featured on The Atlantic’s website. They also discuss the University of Montana’s MFA program, which Kyle calls “an invaluable experience,” and how Kyle was inspired by the changes in her home town, Grand Junction, Colo., to extend “Foaling Season” into the novel it became. Kyle explains: “I finished graduate school—I went to graduate school in Missoula, which is... [read full story]