A writing professor at California University of Pennsylvania, Carole Waterhouse’s stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Artful Dodge, Forum, Ceilidh, Eureka Literary Magazine, Parting Gifts, The Styles, Turnrow, Crossconnect, Half Tones to Jubilee, Potpourri and other literary magazines. A former newspaper reporter, she has reviewed books for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pittsburgh Press and The New York Times. After spending two summers as a volunteer instructor at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Pittsburgh, she wrote a cover story about prison writers for The Pittsburgh Press Sunday Magazine. Without Wings, her first novel, is based loosely on her prison teaching experience.

Summary of WITHOUT WINGS: At thirty-six, Rachel Weyant finds her life going in every direction except one she can call her own. Her husband, George, is infatuated with his first wife, Madelaine, and her best friend, Annie, shows up with a mysterious six-month-old baby, insisting it’s her own newborn. Her only solace comes in the form of imaginary flights she takes with her first husband, Terry, who died in a small plane crash. Then she begins a new job teaching English literature classes at a penitentiary and meets Mitch, an inmate who promises to guide her not only through the dank corridors of the prison, but more importantly the labyrinth of her own life.