Terese Marie Mailhot is in the creative writing faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she graduated with an MFA in fiction. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Rumpus, Carve Magazine, Offing, Toast and Yellow Medicine Review among others. She was recently named the Tecumseh Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University.
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ADVICE FOR THE LIT-LORN Why doesn’t anyone in North America say barmy for balmy? According to my research, Barmy came first and still enjoys a jolly life. But most North American dictionaries don’t even mention the earlier Scots barmy. —Simon McGavin, Cyberspace |