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I currently am Writer in Residence at Forbes Library, the public library in Northampton, MA, which is a wellspring of resources, enthusiastic research support, love of books, and space to work. I’d like to especially thank Lisa Downing, who has been unstinting in her support; Janet Moulding; and Julie Barlett Nelson (who handled last minute requests with such grace) and Elise Bernier-Feeley. Elise, especially, is at the heart of local resources related to Jonathan Edwards, and has been very generous with her knowledge and friendship. I thank, too, the Friends of Forbes, the Trustees, and Diana Gordon. Participants in the Writing Room, the Local History/Local Novelists reading series, and the Writing Life discussion series have provided wonderful companionship, witness, and inspiration as I worked. I thank, especially, Cynthia Hinckley, Grace LeClair, Elli Meeropol, Naila Moreira, Jacqueline Sheehan, Mistinguette Smith, and lê thi diem thúy (who sent me square nails and gave me courage). Moving with Terre Parker has meant so much. I thank, too, the audiences for the readings and participants in the cemetery tours, who let me know that people are eager to passionately engage with this work. Barb Tobias has helped with the tours over the years, and is dear to me in many ways.
Thanks to Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link of Small Beer Press.
Marci Riseman and Evan Sagerman have provided friendship and beautiful cottage time in which to work. I’d like to thank Vahram Elagoz, Lisa Nelson, Mary Newman Vazquez, Lesléa Vazquez Newman, Martha Richards, Alison Smith, Linda Stout, and Cynthia Suopis. Also, all of the folks from my livejournal and other online networks for every time they encouraged me to keep going, especially Max Airborne, Charlotte Cooper, Holly Hessinger, Deb Malkin, Bertha Pearl and Amanda Piasecki. My parents, Bill and Mollie Stinson, have offered so much love and help that it leaves me speechless. In addition to my sister and brothers, mentioned above, I’d like to thank Eva, Candace, and Parker Stinson; Barbara, Will, Marissa, and Emmett Stinson. Elaine Keach has been engaged, generous, present, and enormously patient over this long process: beloved.
About the Author
Susan Stinson is the author of the novels Venus of Chalk, Fat Girl Dances with Rocks, and Martha Moody and a collection of poetry and lyric essays, Belly Songs. Her work—which has appeared in the Public Humanist, Kenyon Review, Seneca Review, Curve, Lambda Book Report, and the Women’s Review of Books—has received the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation as well as a number of fellowships. Born in Texas and raised in Colorado, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she is Writer in Residence at Forbes Library and also an editor and writing coach.
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