Land of Enchantment

Liza Wieland is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet who has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the North Carolina Arts Council. She is the 2017 winner of the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She is the author of several books including A Watch of Nightingales, winner of the 2008 Michigan Literary Fiction Award and Paris, 7 A.M.

“Wieland tells the intricately woven story of three women whose lives intersect over time in ways only gradually revealed. . . . Wieland engages the reader in the emotional lives of each of these unique women, weaving their stories together during and after 9/11 to create a compelling story of the undeniable power of the muse.” - Booklist“Wieland is a vital voice in contemporary American fiction. Her prose is crisp, her voices are true, and her acuity is remarkable.” - Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award-winning Let the Great World Spin“Land of Enchantment is a beautifully written, dizzyingly knowledgeable examination of the intersection between art and life. It is the best novel I’ve read in the past year.” - Charles Frazier, winner of the National Book Award for Cold Mountain“In the beautifully entangled Land of Enchantment, events unfold on the surface but the novel’s nutrients lie below, in the powerful pulse of art that runs through, and in the connections and disconnections between the characters.” - Raleigh News and Observerer