Stacy Bierlein is the author of the story collection A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends. A founding editor of Other Voices Books, she is the editor of the award-winning anthology A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection as well as a coeditor of the vibrant new anthology Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience. She lives in Newport Coast, California.
The women in The Salt God’s Daughter call themselves outlaws. And who better equipped than outlaws to teach us something about love and protection, identity and desire?
In the mid-1990s I lived in Chicago and became impressed by the vibrant art scene there. New galleries were popping up all over River North, Bucktown, and Wicker Park. Chicago’s…