Karen Palmer’s memoir She’s Under Here grew out of her award-winning essay “The Reader Is the Protagonist,” first published in Virginia Quarterly and selected by Leslie Jamison for inclusion in Best American Essays 2017. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize and grants from the NEA and the Colorado Council on the Arts, she is the author of the novels All Saints and Border Dogs. Other work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Arts & Letters, The Rumpus, Five Points, and Kalliope. She lives with her husband in California and can be found online at Bluesky, FB, Insta, and karenpalmer.com.
Time-lapsed satellite video shows the Palisades Fire at 10:45 a.m., a hot red ball with an orange center sitting right on the coast. A wedge of smoke shoots out over the Pacific Ocean. At around 7:00 p.m., a fist-shaped flicker…
