Author Archives: Alta Ifland

Alta Ifland

Alta Ifland is the author of a bilingual (French-English) book of prose poems, Voice of Ice, which was awarded the French prize Louis Guillaume, and two collections of short stories, Elegy for a Fabulous World, finalist of the Northern California Book Award, and Death-in-a-Box, winner of the Subito Press fiction prize.

No Gold Rush

It was during my last year as a graduate student in San Diego that I experienced for the first time what it meant to be the object of someone else’s… how should I put it? “Romantic interest”? “Passion”? “Love”? Until then, love had been for me something I was in, and the object of my affection was either dead, or a literary character, or some other unattainable person.

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