About the Author

Mary Leonard is an associate
at the Bard College Institute
of Writing and Thinking and
teaches high school students
in an intensive three-week
summer program at Simon's
Rock College. She lives with
her husband in Kingston,
New York, and is presently writing a novel.

Acknowledgements

“Like an Abandoned Bumper Car” and "Silence is like a Series of Hyphens” first appeared in Hubbub.

“A Letter to My Mother” first appeared in Kota Press.

“A Meditation on the Secret of Life” and “Dominatrix of Pastis” first appeared in Miller's Pond.

“Twenty-First Century Flint” was entitled “Like Whispers Turning” when it first appeared at nycbigcitylit.com.