Authors: Steve Himmer
Bee-Loud Glade (23 page)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Big thanks to my parents and brothers, for indulging my daydreamer's mind, and to my wife, Sage, and daughter, Gretchen, for living with it. To Michelle Bailat-Jones and Laura McCune-Poplin, the best first readers and friends a person could want, and to Tom McCarthy, Rick Reiken, Michael Kindness, Peter Grandbois, William Walsh, Lise Haines, and Jessica Treadway for their support. To Nora Fussner at
Pindeldyboz,
Roxane Gay at
PANK Magazine
, Amber Sparks at
Emprise Review
, Laura Ellen Scott at
Everyday Genius
, Matt Bell at
The Collagist
, and Steven Seighman at
Monkeybicycle
for publishing excerpts, and to Jeanne Holtzman, Kevin Fanning, Rob Kloss, and Erin Fitzgerald for reading along the way. Also to Meng-hu, host of the invaluable
Hermitary.com
, Tony Robinson of
The Worst Jobs In History
, and AKM Adam for the inspiration, and of course thanks to Dan Cafaro, Libby Kuzma, Lindsey Kline, Jamie Keenan, and Angela Gabriel at Atticus Books. In memory of Checkers, who always knew when I needed a walk to think about the next bit of writing.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steve Himmer's
stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and he edits the online journal
Necessary Fiction
. He teaches at Emerson College in Boston, where he also earned his MFA, and he has a website at http://www.stevehimmer.com.
The Bee-Loud Glade
is his first novel.