Julie Schumacher Audiobooks

Julie Schumacher is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer and academic who has spent her career with one foot in the seminar room: she is a Regents Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, where her specialisms take in creative writing, contemporary fiction and children’s literature.

That combination – a practising fiction writer who also teaches the craft at a senior level – tends to produce work of unusual precision, and her range across novels, essays and stories suggests a writer more interested in finding the right form for an idea than in repeating a formula.

Patient, Female, the Schumacher title in our catalogue, comes from a writer who knows contemporary fiction from both sides of the desk, as practitioner and professor, and that assurance tends to show at sentence level – which is precisely where an audiobook lives or dies.

For UK listeners meeting her for the first time, this is a sound introduction to an American voice with a craftsman’s credentials: fiction from someone who teaches the subject, best suited to those who like their novels intelligent and precisely made.