Natashia Deón is a Los Angeles attorney and creator of the reading series Dirty Laundry Lit. A 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee, PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, Bread Loaf scholarship recipient, and VCCA Fellow, her work has appeared in The Rattling Wall, BODY and The Feminist Wire. She has recently completed her first novel set on the eve of the Civil War. Find her at natashiadeon.com
Our family stories mutate with every retelling across the generations like a game of telephone, until the thin, sharp line of fact becomes frayed and hazy.