Latest News: Parrish's debut novel, What Is Found, What Is Lost, is forthcoming in Fall 2014 from She Writes Press.Her story collection, Our Love Could Light The World, is a Kirkus Reviews recommended Indie title, and a finalist in both the 2013 USA Book News International Book Awards and the USA Book News Best Book Awards.Kirkus Reviews says: "A successful collage of linked stories set in a rich, dysfunctional world." About the Book: You know the Dugans. They're that scrappy family down the street. Their five children run free, they never clean up after their dog, and the husband hasn't earned a cent in years. You wouldn't want them for neighbors, but from a distance, they're quite entertaining. Share their tragedies and triumphs, and see just how much you have in common with them. Set in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, the Our Love Could Light The World has been compared to the writing of Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, and Elizabeth Strout Praise for Our Love Could Light The World:"Anne Leigh Parrish is in possession of such precise prose, devilish wit, and big-hearted compassion that I couldn't help but be drawn into the hijinks and mishaps of the Dugan family. I found myself one moment laughing out loud, and the next, overcome with emotion. I'd compare these linked stories to those of George Saunders, Elizabeth Strout, or perhaps even Flannery O'Connor, if Parrish's voice weren't so clearly and wonderfully her own." - Ross McMeekin, Editor, Spartan Literary Review"Anne Leigh Parrish knows the subtle movements of families in turmoil and the flailing attempts at love and peace. She takes you inside the homes of your neighbors, or of people like them, and she captures in fine detail their private, crippling agonies and their tiny, saving grace notes. Reading OUR LOVE COULD LIGHT THE WORLD is like holding up a mirror -- you see yourself, and then if you look closely, you also see things you might otherwise have been missed." -- Craig Lancaster, author of 600 HOURS OF EDWARD and EDWARD ADRIFT