Karen Good MarableKaren Good Marable is an Atlanta-based writer whose byline has been featured in books and magazines including the New Yorker, the Bitter Southerner, and ESSENCE. She is particularly proud of theessay in this anthology. In late July 2020, while originally penning "Joyride" for the Oxford American, her family contracted Covid. Through phlegm, short breath, no taste, and worry, still she wrote---and is grateful to tell the tale.