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ST. VINCENT

Swimming in the Volcano
Bob Shacochis (St. Vincent [Eastern Caribbean] 1975–76)
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993; Grove/Atlantic, Inc, 2004
Peace Corps novel

Samoa

My View from the House by the Sea
Donna Marie Barr (Samoa 2007-2008)
Independently published 2021
Peace Corps memoir

SENEGAL

Running in Flip–flops
Abigail Fay (Senegal 2007–09)
Peace Corps Writers, 2011
Peace Corps novel

Heat, Sand, and Friends
Allen W. Fletcher (Senegal 1969–71)
Worcester Publishing Ltd., 2019
Peace Corps short stories

From Kalamazoo to Timbuktu
Paul  Guenette (Senegal 1975-79)
Booklocker.com, Inc., 2021
Memoir with portion on the Peace Corps

The Fourth Glass of Tea: A Story of Loss and Revival through Remembrance
Deborah A. Hahn (Senegal 1973–75)
Independently published, 2021
Peace Corps memoir

African Son
William J. Hemminger (Senegal 1973–75)
University Press of America, 2012
Peace Corps Memoir

From Kabul to Dakar: Peace Corps Stories from the Rossmoor News
Douglas  Hergert (Afghanistan 1974–76, Senegal 1976–79)
Independently published, 2014
Peace Corps true stories

Roller Skating in the Desert
Leita Kaldi (Senegal 1993–96)
Publish America, 2007
Peace Corps memoir

A Thousand Points of Light
Marc-Vincent  Jackson (Senegal 1986-89)
Page Publishing, 2021
Peace Corps novel

Under the Neem Tree
Susan Lowerre (Sengal 1985–87)
Permanent Press, 1991; University of Washington Press, 1993
Peace Corps memoir

Easter Vigil
Ann Neelon (Senegal 1978–79)
Anhinga Press, 1996
Peace Corps poetry

The Giant Tangerine Sunball: Poems from a Peace Corps Volunteer
Katie Speicher (Senegal 2016-2018)
Peace Corps Writers, 2021
Peace Corps poetry

The Wretch Unsung
Eric T. Stafne (Senegal 1994–96)
Aventine Press
Peace Corps novel

Rice and River Fish: A Peace Corps Memoir
Adam  Strubeck (Senegal 2019–20) 
Independently published, 2020
Peace Corps memoir

Polite Society
Melanie D. Sumner (Senegal 1988–90)
Houghton Mifflin, 1995
Peace Corps short stories

What Sahel Am I Doin’ Here?: 30 Years of Misadventures in Africa
Steve  Wisecarver (Senegal 1976–78; Staff/ CD Madagascar, CD Kenya 2008–2013)
Booklocker.com, 2018
Peace Corps true stories

SIERRA LEONE

Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone
David Read Barker (Sierra Leone 1965–67), editor
Dog Ear Publishing, 2013
Peace Corps memoir collection

Softball, Snakes, Sausage Flies and Rice: Peace Corps Life in 1960s Sierra Leone
Philip Fretz  (Sierra Leone 1967–69)
Independently published, 2013
Peace Corps memoir

Reaching Out
Rainette Bannister Holimon (Kenya 1974–77; Sierra Leone 1990–91)
iUniverse.com, 2001
Peace Corps memoir

Be Steadfast: A Peace Corps Journey in Sierra Leone
Bryan J. Meeker (Sierra Leone 2010–12)
Independently published, 2019
Peace Corps memoir

My Heart Is Like a Cabbage: A Peace Corps Memoir
Gerald David Mills (Sierra Leone 1962–64)
Independently published, 2015
Peace Corps memoir

From Freeborn to Freetown & Back
Patrick R. O’Leary (Sierra Leone 1966–68)
Peace Corps Writers, 2016
Peace Corps memoir

Hang In There: My Journey of Service Living in Caribbean and West African Cultures
Elizabeth J. Quinn (Jamaica 1985–88, Sierra Leone 1989–90)
Independently published, 2005
Peace Corps memoir

Into Africa with the Peace Corps . . . Sierra Leone in the ’60s
Sue Sadow (Sierra Leone 1961–63)
Beaumont Books, 1986
Peace Corps memoir

The Peace Corps, Sierra Leone, and Me
Norman  Tyler (Sierra Leone 1964–66)
Independently published, 2015
Peace Corps journals

SOLOMON ISLANDS

On the Brink of Paradise: From Tetons to Tropics
Kim McMahill (Solomon Islands 1994–95)
Buy Books on the web.com, 1999
Peace Corps memoir

Life as a PCV in the Federated States of Micronesia
Steve C. Smith (Solomon Islands 1979–80) co-author with Carol Coleman
Development Through Self–Reliance, 1986
Peace Corps memoir

SOMALIA

The Last Camel: True Stories about Somalia
Jeanne Martha D’Haem (Somalia 1968–70)
Red Sea Press, 1997
Peace Corps creative non–fiction

The Toughest Peace Corps Job: Letters from Somalia, 1969
Jim  Douglas (Somalia 1969–71)
Inkwater Press, 2015
Peace Corps letters

Somalia: Short Fiction
Martin R. Ganzglass (Somalia 1966–68)
Peace Corps Writers
Peace Corps short stories

The Mystical Land of Myrrh
MaryAnn  Shank (Somalia 1967–69)
Dippity Press 2019
Peace Corps short stories

Baadiye Iyo Beled: The Interior and the City in Somalia
Tom Smoker (Somalia), photos; Eugene Rome (Somalia), design; John Johnson (Somalia), poetry & translation; Muusa Galaal, script & translation; B.W. Andrzejewski & Margaret Laurence, translation
American Peace Corps, 1969
Peace Corps memoir with photos, poetry and text

SOUTH AFRICA

Power Lines
Jason Carter (South Africa 1998–2000)
National Geographic Society, 2002
Peace Corps memoir

Dancing with Gogos: A Peace Corps Memoir
Gary P. Cornelius (South Africa 2012-13 )
Peace Corps Writers
Peace Corps memoir

Inside Outside: A Retiree’s Peace Corps Journal from South Africa
Sydney Kling (South Africa 2001–03)
Kling, 2007
Peace Corps memoir

Run Umlungu!
Zachary J. Madewell (South Africa 2010–12)
Independently published 2014
Peace Corps memoir

Baadiye Iyo Beled: The Interior and the City in Somalia
Tom Smoyer (Somalia), photos; Eugene Rome (Somalia), design; John Johnson (Somalia), poetry & translation; Muusa Galaal, script & translation; B.W. Andrzejewski & Margaret Laurence, translation
American Peace Corps, 1969
Peace Corps photos, poetry, memoir

Lasso The World: A Western Writer’s Tales of Folks Around the Globe
Starley Talbott Thompson (South Africa 2001)
Plainstar Press, 2004
Peace Corps memoir

 

SOUTH KOREA

see Korea

 

SRI LANKA

Serendib
Jim Toner (Sri Lanka 1989–91)
University of Georgia Press, 2001
Peace Corps memoir

 

SWAZILAND

see Eswatini 

 

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