Working with ChiZine Publications has been a thrill; I’m honored to have my book share a shelf with their other marvelous titles. Thanks especially to my editor Samantha Mary Beiko, my publishers Brett Savory and Sandra Kasturi, and my agent Joy Tutela. I hope I’ll never stop learning as a writer. But I was fortunate to have that education get off to an amazing start at Bennington College, under the instruction of wonderful authors like Lucy Grealy, Edward Hoagland, Christopher Miller, and especially the incomparable Rebecca T. Godwin, whose patient, thoughtful attention always went far beyond what my fledging work deserved. Later, studying at Columbia University also enlightened and inspired me; I was particularly lucky to find in Nicholas Christopher a professor who encouraged and nourished my love for the fantastic. And I’d like to thank all the incredible classmates who read the first pieces of this novel in the Columbia MFA program workshops, especially Olena Jennings, Daniel Villarreal, Julia LoFaso, Kat Savino, Vyshali Manivannan, Adam Boretz, Parul Sehgal, Snowden Wright, and so many others.
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