Ambition
Essays by members of The Chrysostom Society
Edited by Luci Shaw and Jeanne Murray Walker
Introduction by Scott Cairns
Imprint: Cascade Books
Luci Shaw is a poet, essayist, and Writer-in-Residence at Regent College, Vancouver. As the author of over thirty books, her writing has appeared in numerous literary and religious journals. In 2013 she received the Tenth Annual Denise Levertov Award for Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University and Image. She is author of a new collection of poetry, Scape (2013), and Adventure of Ascent: Field Notes from a Lifelong Journey (2014).
Jeanne Murray Walker was born in Parkers Prairie, a village in northern Minnesota. She is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently, Helping the Morning: New and Selected Poems (2014). Her ninth, Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking, will be out in 2018. Her memoir, The Geography of Memory (2013) tells the story of the decade she and her sister took care of a mother with Alzheimers. A mentor in the Seattle Pacific University low residency MFA Program, Jeanne teaches writing in prison and travels widely to give readings and run workshops.
"I am glad for Ambition. It explores the issue of human ambition, a topic sorely in need of careful consideration in our day of raging hubris. Ambition is far from 'a many-splendored thing' but it is certainly 'a many-faceted thing.' Ambition explores these many facets of ambition thoughtfully, even reverently. I recommend it highly."
--Richard J. Foster, Author of several books including Celebration of Discipline and Sanctuary of the Soul
"Ambition is a tensive topic for writers (and for women, and for Christians, and…). So this volume is not warm and cozy. Instead, it is stimulating, engaging, provoking, and by turns comforting and discomfiting. For anyone who lives, ambivalently, with desire and aspiration (and, really, isn't that everyone?), this should be required reading."
--Lauren F. Winner, author of Girl Meets God and Still
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