Our next Letter in the Mail comes from Leesa Cross-Smith! Leesa sends us a handwritten letter on hotel stationary about traveling, anxiety, and making lists. She also includes a list of questions she’d love to hear your answers to, so please write back!
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Leesa Cross-Smith is a homemaker and has been a finalist for both the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the Iowa Short Fiction Award. She is the author of Every Kiss a War (Mojave River Press, 2014) and the forthcoming novel Whiskey & Ribbons (Hub City Press, March 2018). Her work has appeared in Oxford American and Best Small Fictions, among many others. She is the founder/editor of WhiskeyPaper and lives and writes in Kentucky.