The essay on how my beloved's brain injury changed our family has recently debuted in the Spring issue of The Southern Review. I am completing a collection of collage-structure essays that are based on the events, awakenings and challenges that happen when the personal narrative is interrupted by forgetfulness, whether it is forced, chosen, voluntary or necessary. Each of the pieces is held up to the light of the collective experience, questioning the assumption that memory is personal. What we choose to remember, how we choose to memorialize is critical to our mythos, and our moral center.

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I met the editor Bret Lott at a reception in Seattle last week. He was receiving the Denise Levertov Award for his lifelong work. I introduced myself afterwards, and he said, "Oh, the writer of "Creation Story". The people at the magazine are going to be thrilled I got to meet you." Wow. That was incredible. I thanked him and his editors for making it a much better essay than I submitted. What a gift it was to work with such fine writers devoted to literary craftswomanship.