Phyllis MannanPhyllis Mannan began writing about her son David, who has autism, in an attempt to understand him. She has received an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and her poems have appeared in Cloudbank, Fireweed, The Oregonian, Rain Magazine, Stringown, Verseweavers, Willow Springs, and other publications. Her memoir, Torn Fish: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and Their Shared Humanity, was published in 2015. A former high school English teacher, Phyllis lives with her husband on the north Oregon coast. Read More Read Less