From the Hilltop

Acknowledgments

For their faith, support, and hard work on this manuscript: my agent Kate Garrick, the series editors GeraldVizenor and Diane Glancy, and acquisitions editor Elisabeth Chretien. For its financial support: the Texas Tech University Graduate College, which gave me a Summer Dissertation Research Award that helped this collection along its way. For their sharp editing and tireless friendship: Dennis Covington, Jill Patterson, John Poch, Gail Folkins, J. Marcus Weekley,Alan Rossi, Evan Bruno, Linda Helstern, Diane Warner, and Francine Ringold. For sending me Louise Erdrich’s books when I was so very far from home: Tom Hutchinson. For the house at the canyon, for becoming my West Texas family: B. J. Gibson and her family. For their support and encouragement: my family—Andrew Jensen,Kelly Jensen,Mary Lee Jensen,Laura Pardee,and Tim Jensen—and all those who came before. Acknowledgments x Acknowledgments For being first, last, always: Don and Eva. For everything—the list so long and still being written: Stephen Graham Jones. Thanks to the original publishers of these stories: “Chiromancer”: Passages North 26, no. 1 (Spring 2005), 221–226. “Still”: Tusculum Review 2, no. 1 (Spring 2006), 99–105. “At the Powwow Hotel”: Nimrod International Literary Journal 28, no. 1 (Fall 2006). Winner of Nimrod’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, 31–39. “At the Powwow Hotel”: New Stories from the South, The Year’s Best, 2007. Series editor, Kathy Pories.Algonquin Press (August 2007), 166–177. “At the Powwow Hotel”: New Stories from the Southwest. D.Seth Horton,editor.Ohio University Press (January 2008), 149–158. “From the Hilltop”: Fiction International 39, no. 1 (Spring 2006), 151–163. “Killing Elvis”: Yellow Medicine Review 3, no. 1 (Fall 2007), 12–27. “Sight and Other Hazards”: New Texas (Fall 2006), 45–54. ...