[Photographer: Asher Klein]

Justine Hope Blau is the author of the memoir, Scattered (Hand Whistle Press, 2012) and has written for Rolling Stone, Oprah Magazine, CBSNews.com and The Huffington Post. She teaches memoir writing workshops at Lehman College in the Bronx and holds an MFA from Columbia School of the Arts.

Acknowledgements

Cover photo: Joe Raskin. Email: jbraskin@hotmail.com

For insightful reading and editing, thank you to Dan Mausner, Corrina Blau, Amy Steinberg,  Juan Martinez, David Baumbach, Quandra Prettyman, Betty Marton, Asher Klein, Grace Blau Klein, Beth Aviv, Hope Leichter and Jeremiah R. Mercurio.

Douglas K. Schoenberg, I am lucky to have you by my side.

Deep gratitude to all of my former students. You are writers. Please remember what Anne Lamott said, “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.”

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