Here follows an abbreviated list of those to whom I owe thanks, gratitude, and unpayable debts, whether as teachers, readers, writers, editors, students, child-minders, those with good counsel, and/or saving graces:
Ronna Burger, Richard Velkley, Carl Page, Eva Brann, Oliver Sensen, Norah Lovell, Judith Gruber, Katherine Nehring, Rebekah Eagle, Barbara McClay, Mary Duffy, Clare Coffey, Evelyn Ann Clausen, Tom Luongo, Charlotte Maheu Vail, Brendan Cook, Rick Godden, Harold Tarrant, Drew Chastain, Ben Bayer, Travis Mulroy, Haley Butler, Shane Gassaway, Caitlin Bean, Anita Singh, Noel Brockett, Everett Reed, Erikk Geannikis, Nini Aduashvili, Tucker Fuller, Jenny Windstrup, Elizabeth Gross, Carol Breaux, an anonymous reader, Jana Hodges-Kluck, Rachel Weydert, Jeff and Catherine Townsend, Nancy Brockett, Emily Townsend, and Hayden Brockett.