Walking with an Essayist
It is gray and frigid outside. I have accomplished little at my desk. I have plans, when I return home, to draft an essay about love. So I want my walk around the lake to go quickly.
Bonnie J. Rough
Bonnie J. Rough (bonnierough@hotmail.com) won the 2006 Iowa Review Award for her essay "The Birdmen," and the 2005 Annie Dillard Award for Nonfiction from Bellingham Review for her essay "Slaughter." Other new nonfiction appears in the Fall 2006 issue of Ninth Letter. She lives in Minneapolis, where she teaches at the Loft Literary Center.