The Work of Secrecy
Growing up I had a cousin named Dimple who lived in Oak Ridge. She was 46 years older than me, the oldest cousin on that side of the family, while…
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An Oak Ridge Story
…Oak Ridge, transfixed by a photograph of her long-dead grandfather standing in front of a nuclear explosion. Photo: Alex Carroll Photography. “I felt myself floating, unmoored from time and space,…
A Tennessee Christmas
…guard shack that marked the edge of town. Back during World War II, when Oak Ridge was a secret city designed to facilitate the Manhattan Project, this was one of…
Taken
…at a very young age, long before I departed my hometown of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, destined for hard-to-pronounce places at the tattered edges of a map. My father showed me…
A Protection Against Oblivion
…Ridge,” she writes, “was my Combray.” Nancy Drew and Davy Crockett share space alongside Atomic Fireball candy, Captain Atomic comic books, and the ubiquitous atomic symbol—found in Oak Ridge on…
“Landscape Myopia”
…New Southern Voices Poetry Prize, selected by Sean Hill. Her poems have appeared on Poets.org and in Crazyhorse, Waxwing, The Southern Review, and other publications. She lives in Oak Ridge….
