Amy Bernhard is a graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa. Her essays have appeared in VICE Magazine, The Iowa Review, Redivider, and Ninth Letter, among others. She teaches writing at The University of Iowa and Loyola University in Chicago.
I will not end up like these woman, I promise myself, left behind and living in some suburb. I will not be anyone’s baby. I will be a real artist instead, a writer.