In an era of Instagram famous #Foodies and the addicting "Chopped Junior" and "The Great British Baking Show," it's startling to think how rarely people think about or know where their food comes from, even though food is something we encounter every day and need to survive.
In his fourth year of DU’s creative writing PhD program, Mark Mayer’s debut story collection won the Michener Copernicus Prize. The stories share a collective backdrop—one rooted in the tradition of circus acts and freak shows. “The characters in my stories adjust themselves to reality by imagining what exists beyond or outside of it,” Mayer said.
