Lands, Languages, Loves ... Lives
Biography
Constance Lindgreen writes short stories, novels, and poetry.
In a lifetime on the move, she has put down roots in the United States, England, France, and Denmark and is passably fluent in Danish and French, capable of dramatic statements in Italian, and can order ice cream in Russian.
She treasures Tolstoy, Turgenev, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Shakespeare, Anton Chekov, Trollope, Proust, Henry James, Junichiro Tanizaki, and Homer. And many others.
Publications and Recognition:
2015: "A Restaurant in Venice" - Runner-Up International Club of Bordeaux competition.
2016: "A Case in Point,"- Gascony Writers 2016 Anthology. Special Mention in the 2017 Pushcart Prize XLII. ,
2017: Blue Fountain, Crossroads Writers Club anthology: short stories.
2017: Silver Medal and Judges Pick prizes in Lost!, the 2017 Creative Writing Institute themed Anthology.
2019: Kaleidoscope, Short works from the Crossroads Writers Club of Fontainebleau: short stories and poems.
Destins Croisés/Intertwined Destinies - Montigny sur Loing et les Américains. (English translation)
2025: The Adventures of Mimi la Fourmi: A little French ant finds herself in Denmark. Published by Radicant Press in English, French, Danish, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish and Ukrainian. Editions in German, Portuguese and Finnish will be available in autumn 2025.
Work in progress:
The Lives and Wives of Jakob Sorensen - in 1860s war-torn Denmark, a doctor is torn between healing souls and bodies
Heaped Up, Pressed Down, and Flowing Over - diaries and histories from late 19th century Ohio
All the Stories You Told Me - short story collection
The Thirteen Hour Man - to be published as an e-book