The Dark Lady
In my imaginings, Ava was always a woman driving at night, a face behind glass in a shiny speeding vehicle, motoring down the road.
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Janet Pocorobba
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Janet Pocorobba is an associate professor of writing at Lesley University and associate director of their low-residency MFA in creative writing. A former writer and contributing editor at Metropolis magazine in Tokyo, her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in The Rumpus, Harvard Review, The Writer, Kyoto Journal, Indiana Review, Provincetown Arts, American Athenaeum, and elsewhere. She lives in a cabin in Vermont, where she keeps a blog of rural life at www.onsodompond.wordpress.com and is writing a book about women, her local co-op, and community.
Reading Mademoiselle Gantrel
We squinted into the smoky room and saw ourselves on junior year abroad, frolicking on the Left Bank with artists in berets like hers.