The Texas Review

My longform essay, “The Bones: A Letter To My Daughter” appears in the fall/winter 2018 issue of The Texas Review.

The issue has chilling dystopian fiction by Megan Paslawski, innovative poetry by Ayokunle Falomo, a wonderful, strange play, “Funeral for a Fish” by Hayley Huntley, and great short story, “Devil’s Tower” by Lilly Schneider. “Big Blue Winter” by Ellyn Gaydos takes place in Vermont, a place I loved and lived decades ago. The “inescapable loop of winter and mud season,” the “dammed Winooski River” (I’m quoting from the essay here) - it’s all there, in a beautifully evocative piece of writing that will stay with me.

I almost didn’t post about my essay, and I’m grateful it is in a beautiful publication like The Texas Review. It belongs in a Texan publication. I’m also grateful it is in print, as I’m not sure I want everyone I grew up with to read it or find it easily. But here I am, posting. It was a hard essay to write, and perhaps even harder to put out in the world. But I did.

Complete list of contributors:
Fiction by Allison Grace Myers, Megan Paslawski, Lilly Schneider, Margaret Remick Weir

Essays by Ellyn Gaydos, Claudia Smith

Poetry by Hayan Charara, Ayokunle Falomo, Rodney Gomez, Niki Herd, Zebulon Huset, Amanda Galvan Huynh, Zefyr Lisowski, Kevin Simmonds

Play by Hayley Huntley