Lauren RhoadesLauren Rhoades is a writer and the director of the Eudora Welty House & Garden, a literary house museum in Jackson, Mississippi operated by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Her fiction, essays, and book reviews have been pubished in the Southwest Review, StorySouth, the Mississippi Books Page, Eudora Welty Review, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of a Tent Creative Writing Fellowship at the Yiddish Book Center, a finalist for the Indiana Review Creative Nonfiction Prize, and a finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. Currently, Lauren is at work on a memoir-in-essays about divorce, daughterhood, and identity. She received an MFA in creative writing from the Mississippi University for Women. Read More Read Less