Victoria Stagg Elliott is a writer in Chicago. She has competed in two marathons, one half-ironman triathlon and a stair-climbing race to the top of the Sears (now Willis) tower. She has two gold medals in figure skating and a bronze in swimming from the Gay Games.
Like the poems it contains, The Takeaway Bin as a whole is a response to something commonplace; one might even say it’s a book of copings with or responses to…