A great war, a great love, and the mythology that unites them. The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War is a lyrical adaptation of a beloved classic.

Set against the shattering events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the tale’s heart are an American schoolteacher—dynamic and imaginative—and an Irish musician, homeless and hated—who have survived bloodshed, poverty, and sickness to be thrown together in an English village. Together they quietly hide from the world in a small cottage. 

Too soon, reality shatters their serenity, and they must face the parochial community. Unbeknownst to all, a legend is in the making—one that will speak of courage and resilience amidst the forces that brought the couple together even as outside forces threaten to tear them apart. 

Born in LA, Jane Rosenberg LaForge studied political science at UCLA and creative writing in the Kate Braverman workshops of the 1990s. She earned her MFA at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where was awarded a Delaney Fellowship for Women Writers. A former journalist and English adjunct, she now lives in New York. Throughout the last decade, Jane has published many works, including An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/ A Fantastical Memoir, which Reader’s Digest called “one of the most inventive books in recent years." Her short fiction and poetry have been widely published, nominated for several awards, and her 2012 chapbook of poems, The Navigation of Loss, was one of three winners of the Red Ochre Lit chapbook prize.