If you weren’t lucky enough to make it to AWP this year, never fear. Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay has a summary of her time in Boston that will make you feel like you were really there. A preview:
This woman walked up to me and said, “Hi, I’m Amy,” and I think I said hi and shook her hand and then continued with the photo shoot.
Later, during the reading, I kept staring at the back of this Amy’s head thinking, “I maybe know this person.” But where did I know her from? I puzzled this to distraction and suddenly, this wave of dread flooded me. It was my editor Amy Hundley from Grove/Atlantic.