Charlene Finn

Charlene grew up in eastern Washington and received her MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson College for Writers after spending many years as an ICU nurse in Seattle. In 2004, she received the Washington State Artist Trust literature fellowship for an excerpt of her first novel then called Uneven Ground. She was awarded a residency at Hedgebrook in 2002 and returned as alumni in April 2008 and 20015. Her stories have been published in Potomac Review and Ellipsis. Her first novel, now called The Goode Sisters, is out on submission. She’s at work on her second novel and lives in Seattle, Washington with her family.

The Goode Sisters

Summer was Kate’s favorite season. The sun drew moisture from the air and sharpened her senses, so when a thunderstorm approached, she could smell rain before it fell. When the sun dropped below Rattlesnake Ridge across the lower Yakima Valley, their land on the opposite east slope held onto the heat and almost guaranteed that she and Hayden were able to grow bumper crops of fruit. They raised Bing cherries, Red Haven and Alberta peaches, and Tilden apricots and two kinds of apples all sold under Kate’s family name, Goode.
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