Quick and Quirky Stories and Photos (2024), Lorin Lee Cary’s latest book, links his interest in flash fiction with his love of photography. His stories have appeared in various journals, including Corvus Review, Fiction on the Web, Horror Sleaze Trash, Impspired, and 101 Words.
Cary’s other books include The Custer Conspiracy (Book Baby, 2009), California Dreaming (Scarlet Leaf, 2017), and (based on interviews with Lu Chi Fa) My Good Fortune: Memoir of a Chinese Orphan’s Success in America (BookLocker, 2019).
His interest in photography began as a kid and blossomed in later years. He has won awards for images in Nantucket, Toledo, Las Vegas, and Cambria. Photos have been published in Typehouse Magazine, Crux, and Carolina Muse.
Previously, Cary taught Labor and Social History at the University of Toledo and, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. In addition to many articles and essays, he co-authored No Strength Without Union: Ohio Workers 1803-1980 (Ohio Historical Society, 1982) and Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1776 (University of North Carolina Press, 1995). Both won the Ohio Academy of History’s Distinguished Book Award.