Juyanne JamesJuyanne James is an associate professor of English at the University of Holy Cross in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has authored The Persimmon Trail and Other Stories; her stories and essays have appeared in journals such as The Louisville Review, Mythum, Bayou Magazine, Eleven Eleven, Thrice, and Ponder Review, and included in the anthologies New Stories from the South: 2009 and Something in the Water: 20 Louisiana Stories. ""Table Scraps"" was a notable inclusion in The Best American Essays (2014). Read More Read Less