Lacy M. Johnsonworked as a cashier at WalMart, sold steaks door-to-door, and puppeteered with a traveling childrenrsquo;s museum before earning a PhD from University of Houstonrsquo;s Creative Writing Program. She has taught writing for over a decade. Her creative and critical work has appeared inSentence, TriQuarterly Online, Memoir (and), Gulf Coastand elsewhere. Excerpts can be found at .