Noël Valis (Ph.D., Spanish Literature, 1975) has published a novella, The Labor of Longing (Charlotte, NC: Main Street Rag Publishing, 2014). Noël Valis is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for Spanish at Yale University.

From the publisher’s website:

“If ghosts dreamed, what would they dream? What are dreams after we are gone? Set in the late nineteenth-century New Jersey Pine Barrens, The Labor of Longing is an intensely told story of lost love and madness, lost souls and found dreams.”

The Labor of Longing was a Finalist for the Prize Americana for Prose.