Thanks to the following people who, either directly or in some tangential way, made this book possible: Agha Shahid Ali; Alexandra Pringle; John Edgar Wideman; Noy Holland; Shona Ramaya; the Fiction Babes – Tamara Grogan, Lesley Hyatt, Justine Dymond, Therese Chehade and, in particular, Elizabeth Porto; Herman Fong; Karin Gosselink; Brion Dulac; Tushna Kandawalla; and,