Biting through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments My heartfelt thanks to my family, Terry, Nathan, and Anna Furstenau, and my parents, Sipra and Sachin Mukerjee, who make everything possible. I thank and appreciate my writing friends and mentors who helped shape my work and perception: Maureen Stanton, Marly Swick, Sandra Scofield, Gretchen Henderson, Ann Briedenbach, Jen Gravely, Laura McHugh, and others who have encouraged me to be the writer I am today. To my friend, Beth Hand Johnson, who, unbelievably, can remember the first poem I ever wrote, and to Anne Robinson, for her generous friendship, I send gratitude, always. I thank the Vermont Studio Center for their gift of time and marvel still at the group of amazing writers and artists I met there. I thank, too, my editor, Catherine Cocks, and the University of Iowa Press for all the work they do so incredibly well. The epigraph comes from Mary Oliver, House of Light (Boston: Beacon, 1962), 32–33. A portion of the prologue of this book appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Print Annual 5, titled “Biting through the Skin.” ...