Drawing on the rich complexity of the American Midwest, Kim Suhr peoples her debut book of fiction with characters that we know, carved out of the Wisconsin landscape and caught between expectation and desire. An Iraq war veteran stalks the streets of Madison. Four drunk friends hunt deer outside of Antigo. A mother tries to save her son. A transplanted New Yorker plots revenge against her husband. A man sobers up and opens a paintball range for Jesus. A woman with nothing to lose waits for her first kiss. Personal and powerful, Kim Suhr's Nothing to Lose shows us a region filled with real people: less than perfect, plagued with doubts, always reaching. It seems as if Kim Suhr doesn't invent characters; rather, she channels them. She finds a perfect balance between the plainspoken thoughts of her unlikely heroes and the exquisitely chiseled prose of her own voice. "Oh him," you might think; "Oh, her"; and then the punch of a story's turn makes you gasp with recognition. -Sandra Scofield, National Book Award finalist, author of Beyond Deserving , Swim , and The Last Draft Suhr's is the kind of voice that makes me feel held in the storyteller's hand. -Steven Huff, author of Blissful and Other Stories Kim Suhr lives and writes in southeastern Wisconsin. Her work has appeared in Midwest Review, Stonecoast Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, Foundling Review, and others. She holds an MFA from Pine Manor College, where she was the 2013 Dennis Lehane Fellow for Fiction. She is the director of Red Oak Writing.