Thom Lynch is the nicest guy and a funny, endearing writer. It's my privilege, really

Fitch was my workshop leader at the Community of Writers and defended my work against all comers. Thank you, again.

My book, Mother of Orphans: The True and Curious Story of Irish Alice, A Colored Man's Widow, finds these two old women much younger and very much at odds over Polly, who in this photo and in life was stuck in the middle of two worlds.