Thank you to the wondrous staff at the MacDowell Colony for all the little miracles you provide for us artists, like delicious meals. I began the skeletal draft of this book there four years ago in the dead of winter in Garland Studio, which was haunted and also the studio of choice for James Baldwin on more than one occasion decades before. I didn’t appreciate the ghost, but the beauty, inspiration, and that electric legacy will stay with me always.
All my readers: without you, all this effort would be for nothing. You have my undying gratitude.
I mentioned Tom Matthew Wolfe above, but I have to thank him again. Our lives have gone though a lot of changes in the last few years and he’s remained the kind-hearted, hilarious, and loving guy I married through all of it. Thanks for being my partner in crime.
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Kara Lee Corthron is an author, playwright, and TV-writer based in Los Angeles. She’s the author of The Truth of Right Now, winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award. Her plays, including What Are You Worth?, Welcome to Fear City, AliceGraceAnon, and Holly Down in Heaven, have been performed across the US, and she writes for the TV thrillers You (Netflix) and The Flight Attendant (HBO-Max). She’s a multiyear MacDowell Fellow and a resident playwright at New Dramatists.
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