a) is a dead woman
b) is a dead woman
c) is a dead woman
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to the editors of the magazines, periodicals, and anthologies in which many of the stories in this collection first appeared, sometimes in earlier versions: Tin House, “Ball” and “The Knitting Story”; Mississippi Review, “Staples”; Black Clock, “Apology”; Nerve.com, “Bakery Girl;” The Santa Monica Review, “Fish”; TriQuarterly, “Needles.”
In addition, “Wig” appeared in Getting Even: Revenge Stories (Serpent’s Tail Press, 2007); “Musical Chairs,” as “Timing,” appeared in Lost on Purpose: Women in the City (Seal Press, 2005); “Cactus” appeared in Another City: Writing from Los Angeles (City Lights Books, 2001); and “Ball” appeared in Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader (Tin House Books/Bloomsbury, 2003).
Thank you as well to the generous friends and mentors who offered critical feedback on these stories, and to the extraordinary Dan Smetanka, for his wisdom, vision, guidance, and patience.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tara Ison is the author of the novels The List, A Child out of Alcatraz, a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Rockaway, featured as one of the “Best Books of Summer” in O, The Oprah Magazine, July 2013, and the essay collection, Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies.
Her short fiction, essays, poetry, and book reviews have appeared in Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, Nerve.com, Black Clock, TriQuarterly, PMS: poemmemoirstory, Publishers Weekly, The Week, The Mississippi Review, LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News, and numerous anthologies. She is also the co-writer of the cult movie Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead.
She is currently Associate Professor of Fiction at Arizona State University. Learn more at www.taraison.com.