Shawnacy Kiker is an MFA candidate at UCRiverside, mother of seven, and the poetry editor of The Coachella Review. She self-published her first work of fiction, Donald Duck, Surprise! in her bedroom at the age of four. The work is currently out of print. Her poetry and prose has since been published by various kind people in books and around the web. Follow her on Twitter as @arbitraryjane.
In one of her letters, Flannery O’Connor noted that many Catholics end up suffering as much or more from the Church itself as from those who oppose it and its…