Divided Loyalties

STEPHANIE WAXMAN is the author of Sex and Death, a collection of short stories. Her nonfiction work includes A Helping Handbook - When A Loved One Is Critically Ill, Growing Up Feeling Good, and What Is A Girl? What Is A Boy? She has contributed to The Missouri Review, The Bitter Oleander, North Dakota Quarterly, and West. Stephanie has conducted workshops in Japan, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Alaska and Hawaii, and currently teaches writing in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband Dennis Hicks.