ABOUT SHERIDAN

Sheridan Hough

A native of the California Bay Area, Sheridan Hough is an author, philosopher, and poet. She grew up in Concord, California and East Brunswick, New Jersey, and spent her high school years in Houston, Texas. She has a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Trinity University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley. Mirror's Fathom is her first novel.
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MIRROR'S FATHOM

Sheridan Hough

Mirror’s Fathom is the story of Tycho Wilhelm Lund—anarchist, pirate, and thief of a legendary mirror. Tycho is also a great-nephew of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and is, when the novel begins, a mild-mannered antiques dealer who is asked to assess the value of some furniture at the home of Regine Schlegel, Kierkegaard’s famously jilted former love.
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OTHER WORK

Sheridan Hough

Sheridan's first book, Nietzsche's Nootide Friend: The Self as Metaphoric Double, published by Pennsylvania State University Press was nominated for the American Philosophical Association Younger Scholar Book Prize in the Fall of 2000. Her first volume of poetry, The Hide, was published by Inleaf Press in December of 2007, and is beautifully illustrated with color plates of textiles created by the artist Susan Hull Walker.
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