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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Short excerpts from this book appeared previously in Vanitas, Western Humanities Reviews, and Birkensnake. Thank you to their editors. Thank you to my lovely agent, Cynthia Cannell, and my incredible editor, Pat Strachan. To Andy Hunter, Julie Buntin, Jennifer Abel Kovitz, and everyone at Catapult. To my earliest readers and advisors, J’Lyn Chapman, Kathryn Davis, Gregory Howard, John McElwee, Miranda Popkey, Suzanne Scanlon, and Kate Zambreno. To W. Scott Howard for Paper Bodies. To Washington University in St. Louis, and my colleagues in the English Department, for time and support. And above all, to my forever reader, the wise and patient Martin Riker, for Elijah and everything else.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Danielle Dutton is the author of a collection of prose pieces, Attempts at a Life, and a novel, SPRAWL, which was a finalist for the Believer Book Award. She also wrote the text for Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera, an artist book of collages by Richard Kraft. Her fiction has appeared in Harper’s, BOMB, Fence, Noon, and other periodicals. Dutton, who grew up in Central California, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Denver and a M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the founder of the publishing house Dorothy, and teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, where she lives with her husband and son.