Dorothee Kocks

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What's Up Next
Set in the early 1800s, my next novel explores the "celestial ravishment" said to be experienced by players of a musical instrument. It's called:
The Glass Harmonica
or
The Sensualist's Tale

Seeing Red “is a page turner, but it’s one of the smartest page turners I’ve seen in many years... What Sinclair did to expose the meat-packing industry, Kocks does for the scandals and sins of the drug industry."
--Utah $5,000 Publication Prize


--Seeing Red “is a rare combination. Not only is it an excellent biotech thriller, it’s also an excellent character story. The writing is smooth and rich, and it develops the story with a depth of emotion and a degree of insight that makes it a pure joy to read.”
--Utah Arts Council Novel Prize, First Place

Read a synopsis of Seeing Red,

Biography
Dorothee Kocks is the author of the novel The Glass Harmonica, forthcoming from SkyBooks international press in 2010, and the non-fiction Dream a Little (University of California Press, 2000). A performer of Accordion Monologues, she has been editor in chief of the outdoor and literary magazine of Utah, Wasatch Journal. As an assistant professor at the University of Utah, she received a Student Choice Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1997. A recipient of artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Can Serrat in Spain, and others, she earned her PhD from Brown University in 1992 and her BA from University of Chicago. She lives in Salt Lake City with husband, Mark Etheridge.

My Work

Fiction
Seeing Red
“The first novel in years to make me cry, so much did I care for the characters.”
--Jerry Oltion, UAC contest judge
Non-fiction
Dream a Little
A "rich, visionary exploration."
-Choice

“Absorbing… original.”
-Environment and History

“Uncommonly graceful narrative.”
-Rethinking History
Performance Art
The Accordion Monologues
Short narratives enlivened by the comic beauty of the accordion. Click here for a sample.
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