Laura Ender earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Ascent, Monkeybicycle, Aethlon, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a novel.
I bought my copy of Blue Angel by Francine Prose for a few thin reasons. First, I was tickled that someone who wrote fiction would have such a fortunate last name. Second, the cover intrigued me: a black-and-white photo of a student and teacher, focused on their studies except for the fact that the student…
When I was about four years old, my father decided to quit his job as a systems analyst and move our family to a tiny town — a hamlet, really — in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where he would become a utility man. He took a huge reduction in pay and prestige, and went from…
