You Are Not a Stranger Here

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOR THEIR SUPPORT during the writing of this book, I would like to thank the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Michener/Copernicus Society of America, and the MacDowel Colony. I would also like to thank my editor Nan Talese, my agent Ira Silverberg, Frank Conroy, Marilynne Robinson, and Connie Brothers at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Sandy McClatchy at The Yale Review, and Adrienne Brodeur and Samantha Schnee at Zoetrope for their encouragement. For helping to improve various stories in this book, I owe thanks to Al an Gurganus, Nick Sywak, Minna Proctor, Justin Tussing, and Jacob Molyneaux. Finally, for making sure I left the apartment now and again, my thanks to Adam Hickey and David Grewal.