The Empty Chair: Love and Loss in the Wake of Flight 3407 is an anthology of memoirs, stories, poems, letters, and photos honoring the victims of Flight 3407 which crashed in Clarence Center just outside Buffalo, NY, on February 12, 2009, killing all 49 people on board and one man in his house on the ground.  This anthology is dedicated to the victims of that flight and to their families and friends.

Honoring the victims of Flight 3407, The Empty Chair, published by local independent press The Writer’s Den, will be released February 12, 2010 and is co-edited by Gunilla T. Kester and Gary Earl Ross.

Over 60 contributors submitted poems, stories, personal journal entries, letters, memories, and photographs for and about the victims of the crash of Flight 3407. The Empty Chair serves as a remembrance and vehicle to express the emotions and grief of the contributors and our community.

The anthology is to be released on the first anniversary of the tragic crash, February 12, 2010, although copies may be purchased now. The book launch is scheduled for Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 7 PM at Talking Leaves Books,

3158 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, (716) 837-8554.

To read my “Foreword,” which explains more of the genesis of this book, please CLICK HERE.

Ordering information:

The Empty Chair can be ordered directly from me, Gunilla Kester, or through www.lulu.com, the publisher. To order from me, click HERE for the order form.  To order from the publisher, click HERE.

The Empty Chair: Love and Loss in the Wake of Flight 3407

ISBN 978-0-557-28906-6

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Swedish-born Gunilla Theander Kester is the author of Time of Sand and Teeth (2009) and co-editor with Gary Earl Ross of The Empty Chair: Love and Loss in the Wake of Flight 3407 (2010). Her CD Songs of Healing and Hope with Cantor Susan Wehle was released in 2007.  She teaches classical guitar at The Amherst School of Music.

Novelist, playwright, public radio essayist, and popular culture scholar, Gary Earl Ross is a professor at the University at Buffalo Educational Opportunity Center. Named Erie County's 2003 Artist of the Year, Ross has won numerous awards for writing and teaching, including a LIFT Fellowship for his fiction, an Emanuel Fried Outstanding New Play Award for his courtroom thriller Matter of Intent, an Excellence Award from United University Professions and State University of New York, and for his public radio essays first place commentary awards from the New York Associated Press and the New York Broadcasters' Association. In 2008 readers of the alternative newsweekly Artvoice voted him the Best Writer in Buffalo.