Rebecca McKanna's writing has appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories 2019, Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and as one of Narrative's Stories of the Week, among other publications. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Indianapolis.
"You can’t hold on to the past," Elif once told me. "You don’t know how. You don’t know what to keep, what to throw away. So you keep it all. And you can’t do that. No one can."