In the past few years Kaye Park Hinckley has emerged as a major talent in what Paul Elie calls “the literature of belief.” Hinckley translates grace in a world on edge, sees a double beginning and ending in everything, literally everything, including the unspeakably awful. Like her novel A Hunger in the Heart , the stories in Birds of a Feather —several of which have won substantive awards—take us to the heart of the matter. "The first story in this collection sits a reader bolt upright. Two stories in, you marvel at this storyteller, who sends us flying over new country, a landscape of modern parables where faith runs river-deep. Kaye Park Hinckley seems to overflow with beautiful, heartbreaking love and lessons. A world with broken wings can surely make use of such stories."—Charles McNair, author of Pickett's Charge and Land O'Goshen "With masterful control and skillful writing, Kaye Park Hinckley boldly explores a wide range of wounded souls in this amazing collection of stories, ultimately finding love in the unloveable, and grace in the sufferings of a complex world."—Cassandra King, author of The Sunday Wife "The short stories in Birds of a Feather are richly imagined tales full of finely drawn characters who demonstrate how people estranged from faith can bumble through life so distracted by worldly horrors and delights, so full of themselves, that they don't even notice faint nudges of grace that stir in their souls or recognize subtle emanations of the holy that abound in the world around them."-- The Catholic World Report Voted one of the Six Best Fiction Books from the First Half of 2014. "Kaye Park Hinckley's stories give a fuller picture of the Christian faith. Like a bird-watcher, the thoughtful reader can even learn to spot the flutter of redemption in these stories." -- Englewood Book Reviewer Magazine Hinckley's characters are complicated. They've done horrible things, witnessed horrible things, been the victims of horrible things, yet they continue rising each morning and putting one foot in front of the other. They fulfill their obligations to each other while these horrible things gnaw at them from the inside out. Hinckley deftly presents the repulsiveness of her character's actions, while also revealing her characters' drive toward love. ..fully developed plots and well-rounded characters. --Lake Oconee Living Magazine, Lucy Adams "The birds in Kaye Park Hinckley's short story collection, "Birds of a Feather," all find themselves from flocks of Catholics. Their family members, or at least a shining few, believe in forgiveness, hope and redemption. But it's the sinners with whom we most sympathize. How can we not? Hinckley's expert literary craftsmanship is matched by the drama of Judeo-Christian values confronting American relativism and egoism. " -- ANGELUS, The Tidings Online, Jennifer Ann Jones Kaye Park Hinckley writes southern literary fiction from a Catholic perspective. A graduate of Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL, Hinckley owned an advertising agency for twenty years before she began writing full time. Many of her stories have been published in literary magazines, such as Dappled Things, and Tuscany Press's Anthology of Short Fiction. In 2013, the Dothan, AL native published her debut novel with Tuscany Press, A Hunger in the Heart. In July, 2014 Wiseblood Books published her short story collection, Birds of a Feather. Englewood Review of Books listed Birds of a Feather, as one of the six best fiction books of the first half of 2014. Hinckley won the 2014 Poets & Writers Maureen Egan Award, First Runner-up, for Faithful, a novel in progress. Other published novels are: The Wind That Shakes the Corn: Memoirs of a Scots Irish Woman, Mary's Mountain, and She Who Sees Beyond. Ms. Hinckley blogs at aworldontheedge.com