Editor’s Notes by Joe Mackall
In Austin in 2006, while at the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, I stepped away from the River Teeth table for a time, and when I came back a young woman near our display said to me: “Some lady in a wheelchair was just here looking for you.” That “lady in a wheelchair” happened to be the indomitable Nancy Mairs.
Contents
“The Best Fried Chicken” Ann Hood ◆ “Tall, Straight Sisters” Jessica Lind Peterson ◆ “Fire One, Fire Two” Ana Maria Spagna ◆ “The ‘N-Word'” Ted Gup ◆ “Daughter of a Gun” Sarah Curtis Graziano ◆ “Women Who Cry” Amy Peterson ◆ “Anchorage, Alaska” Nicholas Dighiera ◆ “In Tongues” Cecele Kraus ◆ “Cave of the Iron Door” Joan Frank ◆ “Romancing the Bird” Marilyn Moriarty ◆ “Boom” Anne Barngrover ◆ “Epiphany” Mary Haug