A gorgeous, and bruising, collection. With a voice that balances grit and grace, humor and heartbreak, Daniel S.C. Sutter captures great truths of the human condition . . . love is imperfect, forgiveness is complicated, survival often looks like stubborn hope. Debris announces a writer unafraid to look closely at what remains after impact-as well as the messes we leave behind. (Skip Horack)
About the Author :
Daniel S.C. Sutter is a 2025-27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Greensboro Review, Mississippi Review, The Carolina Quarterly, BOOTH, Fugue, and elsewhere. His work has won the Robert Watson Literary Prize for Fiction and the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University and an MFA from the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop. Daniel is from Tampa, Florida.
Review :
Sutter writes as if electrified by the final volts of the American Dream. The Apollo moon landing, Watergate, a perfect game thrown by a one-armed man; our moments of public fascination often serve as the backdrop for Debris unstable private citizenry. As feverishly hopeful as they are self-destructive, Sutter's characters keep you turning the pages to see what else they may run into heart-first; a mother's loving arms or a fist? With every sentence in this collection as taut as a wire, Sutter leaves no doubt: Debris is the launching pad of a great new voice in American fiction.
-M.O. Walsh, NYT Bestselling author of My Sunshine Away and The Big Door Prize
Sutter's haunting, darkly comic stories are set in the parts of Florida that tourists rarely see, places where his engaging, hapless characters struggle to get by. Debris is a true gem, crafted by a truly brilliant writer.
-Elizabeth Stuckey-French, author of The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady
A gorgeous, and bruising, collection. With a voice that balances grit and grace, humor and heartbreak, Daniel S.C. Sutter captures great truths of the human condition . . . love is imperfect, forgiveness is complicated, survival often looks like stubborn hope. Debris announces a writer unafraid to look closely at what remains after impact-as well as the messes we leave behind.
-Skip Horack, author of The Other Joseph, The Eden Hunter, and The Southern Cross
