Touched By All Creatures
creative nonfiction for young adult and adult readers
New Horizon Press, April 1999


Reminiscent of James Herriot's tales of creatures great and small, Gay Balliet's story recalls her and her veterinarian husband's experiences tending the health of strange and delightful barn animals, buffaloes, birds, burros, and other friendly beasts. more...

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Lowell: The True Story of an Existential Pig
creative nonfiction for young adult and adult readers
New Horizon Press, June 2000


From Babe to Animal Farm to Charlotte's Web, literature is filled with the escapades of clever pigs. But those fictional swine have nothing on Lowell, the sensitive, brave, and intelligent real-life pet of author Gay L. Balliet. more...

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Lions & Tigers & Mares... Oh, My!
creative nonfiction for young adult and adult readers
RDR Books, June 2004


Monkeys, muntjac, and mules are only a few of the animals riding the veterinary
carousel of life in Gay Balliet's Lions & Tigers and Mares -- Oh, My! a sequel to Touched By All Creatures.
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Henry Miller and Surrealist Metaphor:
"Riding the Ovarian Trolley"

academic book
Peter Lang Publishing Co., NYC 1996


A handbook for surrealism, this book explores the origins and characteristics of French 20th Century surrealist aesthetics both in literary and fine art. As an aficionado of surrealism, Henry Miller employs metaphor to reflect "alchemical experimentation." His surreal imagery depicts the entropy of our time. Miller offers salvation through immersion in the elemental, primal, and sexual.

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