Sugaring Time – Stories of Thebesford County

Scheduled for publication by Pierian Springs Press on February 2, 2026.

Sugaring Time: Stories of Thebesford County is a collection of ten linked stories set in an imaginary Vermont county patterned after Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.  The overriding theme is isolation, how the isolation of Thebesford County from the world impacts its residents and how the intrusion of the outside world into the county does the same.  The collection was a finalist for the Bakeless Prize sponsored by Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and Middlebury College.