PERSONAL WRITING Featured Work Essays published in Pangyrus, Autofocus, Salon, The Rumpus, Lindenwood Review, STITCH-Thread, In Short, and Cargo Literary Twelve Weeks Held Guilt by Dissociation 23 and Not Me Build-A-Bear I Remember Now the Ecstasy of Being Saved Game Over Rose Whacking the Piñata Pilgrimage to a Childhood Summer On Solitude Comfort and Joy Goodbye to 55 Pieta Eye, Me, Mine “How can we combine the old words in new orders so that they survive, so that they create beauty, so that they tell the truth? That is the question.” —Virginia Woolf