Theft (33 page)

To Terry Meyer Stone and the Canadian contingent: You know who you are, and you know I adore you and your completely weird and inexplicable ways.

Susan Feniger; Liz Lachman; Kathryn, Mary-Gaye, and Queen Mother Mary Kinsala; Beth, Susan, both Barbara Bogn-ers; Patty Delarios; Katie Barak (come home, Katie!); Georgine Balassone; Ellen Newberry; Regina Stewart, and the Trevor
Cechs—your support has been a solid foundation for me throughout the years. Thank you all!

The residency programs at the Ucross Foundation, Jentel, and especially Colorado Art Ranch (and Grant Pound) generously offered me the quiet time I needed to work on these pages.

To the editors at Counterpoint: You make me believe that the writing world will retain its integrity far beyond all the bleak predictions flying around the book-o-sphere these days. Your integrity as publishers, your respect for language and for the art of writing, your regard for authors—I have to believe these will be the future of writing, not relics of the past. You're leading the way. Thank you.

My deepest gratefulness always circles back around to Lisa, without whom this book would not exist. Explanation is the thief of awe, and I never have to explain myself to you, Lisa. That makes you the beginning of awe, for me. Oh, and you make me laugh. What else is there? You've taught me to embrace it all.

 

 

In gratitude to all,
BK

BK LOREN has worked as a naturalist, professional brainstormer, assistant chef, ranch hand, furniture maker, UPS driver, and college professor. She currently teaches writing at Chatham University's low residency program, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and many other venues throughout the United States and Canada. She is a winner of the Mary Roberts-Rinehart National Fellowship and has also received The Dana Award for a novel-in-progress for
Theft
. Loren currently lives with her partner, two dogs, and two cats in Colorado.

Copyright © 2012 BK Loren

 

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

 

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eISBN : 978-1-619-02085-6

 

 

 

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