Chelsea Bieker is the author of the novel Godshot (Catapult) and the forthcoming story collection, Cowboys and Angels. Her writing has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s, Electric Literature, and others. Her work has been supported by the The Rona Jaffe Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. Originally from California’s Central Valley, she lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two children where she teaches writing.
In the preface to Haunted Houses, photographer Corinne May Botz writes about seeing the ghosts of gypsies as a child: “I lay in bed stiff as a board, trying to…