Angela Townsend works for a cat sanctuary. She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, fifteen-time Best of the Net nominee, and the 2024 winner of West Trade Review's 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Blackbird, The Iowa Review, JMWW, The Offing, SmokeLong Quarterly, trampset, and Witness, among others. She graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and Vassar College. Angela has lived with Type 1 diabetes for over 30 years and laughs with her poet mother every morning.
Don’t lump Fay in with all those mee-maws and moo-moos and whatnot, alright? She sends her recipes to Ole Time Favorites magazine because they pay fifty dollars. But she wishes they’d put a big fat asterisk by her name and write, “nobody’s Gran.” The gals at church talked Fay into it. Said she’s got the touch. Who else would think… Read more →