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Among the many forms humanity takes are dog aficionados. Happiness is their common quest, but it\u2019s not always as easy to get as a good scratch. This trail of tails brings together a group of Santa Fe women, led by the dog-obsessed Ms. Sioux Ashe, who hijack a community-college creative writing class, and a scruffy pack of men filming an independent sci-fi horror movie in Cow Springs, Arizona. The adventure begins after the mangiest member of the film crew, one-eyed Big Willie, undergoes a cataclysmic conversion that transforms him from a fleabitten sweat-hog into a charismatic healer on the canine circuit. When Big Willie\u2019s gift brings him and his sidekick screenwriter, Gap, into the sphere of Sioux and her dog-loving dilettante companions, Gap takes up his quixotic pursuit of the writing instructor, Dena, who was his senior prom date twenty years earlier and remains his one great love.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lisa Gray Fisher<\/span><\/span> has lived in Santa Fe since 1984, and prior to that in El Valle, near Pe\u00f1asco, during the mid-1970s.\u00a0 <\/span>She and her husband Rick also spent eight years in Boston, where Lisa worked as an editor at Houghton Mifflin. After they returned to the Southwest with their two children, Kristina and Eliot, Lisa taught at Santa Fe Community College (though none of her classes met in a teepee) and then found her home teaching English at Santa Fe Preparatory School, where she served as Department Chair for twenty years. Fisher\u2019s poetry has been published in a number of journals, including the Christian Science Monitor<\/i>, Mediphors<\/i>, and War Literature & the Arts<\/i>. And yes, Lisa and Rick have been picking dog hairs off their clothes for forty years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hijacked<\/em>, a one-act play adapted from the first chapter of Full Body Wag<\/em>, received one of three \u201cBest of the Bench\u201d audience awards at Santa Fe Playhouse\u2019s short play festival, Benchwarmers, Feb 7 \u2013 March 2, 2014.<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\t\"\"\n\t
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The Santa Fe New Mex<\/i>ican<\/i>\u2019s\u00a0Pasatiempo<\/i>\u00a0magazine\u00a0reviewed Full Body Wag<\/em> on June 24, 2011.<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\t\"\"\n\t
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The Gazette<\/em> of Colorado Springs featured\u00a0former resident Lisa Gray Fisher on August 8, 2011, in advance of\u00a0her reading\u00a0the following evening at Poor Richard\u2019s Bookstore. Read at The Gazette<\/em> online\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\t\"\"\n\t
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On Tuesday, June 28, 2011, Full Body Wag<\/em> author Lisa Gray Fisher read an excerpt of the novel at Collected Works Bookstore, in conversation with writer and historian Jack Loeffler.<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\t\"\"\n\t
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On Sunday, July 10, 2011, Lisa Gray Fisher read from and signed copies of Full Body Wag<\/em> at Page One in Albuquerque, the largest independent bookstore in New Mexico.<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\t\"\"\n\t
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Novelist Lisa Gray Fisher enters a conversation about chance and choice on Back Roads Radio<\/em>, reading an excerpt from chapter ten of\u00a0Full Body Wag<\/em>. Original Air Date: July 15, 2011.
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Lisa Gray Fisher appeared on KSFR Public Radio\u2019s Santa Fe Radio Cafe<\/em> with Mary-Charlotte Domandi on June 28, 2011, before her launch event for Full Body Wag<\/em> at Collected Works Bookstore.<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\t\"\"\n\t
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