M.F. McAuliffe's writing is an invitation to reconsider the in-between moments, the sometimes quiet moments that I too often leave uninvestigated. And once there, once I'm in her stories, the challenges and surprises and heartbreaks and joys that live in these moments are revealed by a remarkable storyteller. McAuliffe's wit and humor and heart fill the stories that make up I'm Afraid of Americans and Other Stories, and I will be revisiting them from now on.

-- Matt Robinson, author, The Horse Latitudes

I'm Afraid of Americans is true. And truth is a concept we are holding onto for dear life, with our teeth, by a string. Everything in these stories is magnificently spot on, like a piece of chocolate or a shot of Coirvoisier, vividness calling us to listen to honesty.

-- Leanne Grabel, author, Gold Shoes

I'm afraid of Americans, too. M. F. McAuliffe arrived to a social experiment with no program and no coherent effort at regulation. She, the outsider, writes about it from the ground.

-- Douglas Spangle, author, A White Concrete Day

Praise for The Crucifixes and Other Friday Poems:

There is elegy and orbiting and sky in your eyes and then there are "The Crucifixes" which leap from the Poet Goddess McAuliffe's forehead. If this is the last poetry collection on earth, the gods who find it after the apocalypse will think well enough of us, some distant transDanubian blue afternoon, to resuscitate the species from this body of writing.

-- Jenny Forrester, author, Narrow River, Wide Sky