Kati Standefer is a fiction and nonfiction writer working out of Jackson, Wyoming, and Boulder, Colorado. Her work has been featured in Camas, the Jackson Hole Review, and Terry Tempest Williams' new book, "Finding Beauty in a Broken World.
The first time I read The Lake by Daniel Villasenor I was fifteen, crunched into the backseat of our tiny family Chrysler and on my way to Georgia. I’d plucked…