Curled in the Bed of Love

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments The stories in this collection owe more than I can say to the editorial acumen and persistent faith of Steven Kahn, my first reader, my dearest friend. For their comments on individual stories, I am grateful to Linda Brady, Aaron Shurin, and Maureen Brady. Margaret Hansen, Patricia Hein, Mary Nisbet, and Tim Sheils made helpful suggestions along the way. Aaron Shurin, Deborah Lichtman, and Lewis Buzbee, my colleagues in the mfa in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco, have been extraordinarily generous in their support for my work. Last but not least, I want to thank David and Sarah Kahn, just because. The following stories have appeared in the following magazines: “Behold the Handmaid of the Lord,” in The Cimarron Review (spring 2002) “Comfort,” in Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing (fall 2001) “The Loss of Green,” winner of the 2000 Brenda Ueland Prose Prize, in Water-Stone (fall 2000) xi “Nothing to Hide,” in Other Voices (fall 2000) “Light, Air, Water,” in Natural Bridge (fall 2000) “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” in The GSU Review (spring 2000) “Curled in the Bed of Love,” winner of the 2001 Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Prize, in The Cimarron Review (spring 2003) xii Acknowledgments curled in the bed of love This page intentionally left blank ...