The Mortifications
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Acknowledgments
All my gratitude and appreciation to:
PJ Mark, for the tremendous time, patience, insight, and energy you gave to this book.
Marya Spence, for your careful readings and criticism.
Tim Duggan, for shepherding this novel into the world and for helping me to discover its final form.
Will Wolfslau, Rachel Rokicki, Sarah Grimm, and everyone at Crown Publishing, for their extraordinary support.
Erin McGraw, for the endless wisdom you have shared and continue to share with me—if there is any soul in this story, it is because of your intellect, friendship, and dedication.
Andrew Hudgins, for teaching me how to read and write another way, and for your mostly funny jokes.
Michelle Herman, Lee K. Abbott, and Lee Martin, for your teaching and guidance.
All my peers, friends, and colleagues of The Ohio State University MFA program.
My truly remarkable friends and first-readers Bill Riley, Clayton Clark, Daniel Carter, Alex Streiff, and Gabe Urza—I am wildly fortunate to have found and kept as confidants such funny, intelligent, and compassionate folk.
My supportive and loving friends Morgan Lord, Abraham Stein, Peter Harrison, Daniel Beaulieu, Stefanie Carrabba, Lindsey Pryor, Jessica Corey, Chris Markunas, Joe Scapellato, Dustyn Martincich, Erica Delsandro, and, of course, the incomparable duo of Christopher and Erin Maskwa.
My friends and colleagues at Bucknell, Susquehanna, Sewanee, IAIA, Nouvella Books, and the University of Michigan.
My incredible parents, Debra and Carlos.
My wonderful siblings, Aubrey and Dan.
All the joyous new members of my clan: Keri, Selena, Ava, Lise, Adam, Delilah, Nic, and Gaylyn.
The entire Palacio family.
My wondrous creature of a daughter, Esmé Ofelia.
Lastly, there is a love in my life I will never deserve but still get to call my own—te quiero mucho, Claire Vaye.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Derek Palacio received his MFA in creative writing from The Ohio State University. His short story “Sugarcane” appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013, and his novella, How to Shake the Other Man, was published by Nouvella Books in the same year. He is the co-director, with Claire Vaye Watkins, of the Mojave School, a free creative writing workshop for teenagers in rural Nevada. He lives and teaches in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is a faculty member of the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program.
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