My mentor and dear friend, Pamela Gemin.
The Office of Faculty Development at UW Oshkosh for funding my sabbatical during the fall 2015 semester and the Children’s Learning and Care Center for loving our children and keeping them safe so that I could write.
Gabby Bird, our babysitter and beloved family friend, for nurturing our children, often in times of crisis.
My mom, my dad, and my stepmom Nancy, for teaching me empathy and for being eccentric enough to make life interesting. You raised this daughter to think (and live) outside the box.
Irie, Leo, Fern, Franco, and Gussie: one-fifth each of my whole happiness.
And Ryan, who supplied me with everything essential—from facts and stories to babies, laughter, and love—for my mental wellness and joy.
(Now on to the next book!)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LAURA JEAN BAKER teaches at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, specializing in memoir, women’s stories, crime narratives, and literature for children. She earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, where she was a Colby Fellow. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities, and Calyx, among others, and she has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her essay “The Year of the Tiger” was named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2013. She lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
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