One year, three awards, and seven translations after coming out in hardcover, Ellis Avery's first novel, THE TEAHOUSE FIRE, is now available in paperback from Riverhead Books.

Avery is also the author of a nonfiction book, THE SMOKE WEEK (Gival Press, 2003), a personal account of life in Manhattan after 9/11.

Avery's dramatic work has been produced at New York's Expanded Arts Theater, while her reviews and journalism have appeared in Publishers Weekly, Kyoto Journal, and the Village Voice. In 2001, THREE LINES, ONE ROAD, a year's worth of daily haiku exchanged between Avery and Melissa Demian, was a finalist in the National Poetry Series.

A FULL-PAGE REVIEW IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES!

When [Avery's narrator] remarks, How beautiful, to see something done simply and well, she could easily be speaking about THE TEAHOUSE FIRE, a novel that, like the tea ceremony itself, provides true pleasure to the intellect and all the senses.
-----Emily Barton, author of BROOKLAND.

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