Jennifer Anderson is an an associate professor at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, where she is also the faculty advisor for the college's student-run literary journal, Talking River Review. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Brevity, the Cimarron Review, the Colorado Review, and the Carolina Quarterly, among other places. In 2019, she won The Missouri Review's Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize for nonfiction. For more of Jennifer’s work visit here: Lunch Ticket, 100 word story, Brevity, and Midway Journal.
I didn’t want to fight her. But here we stood, facing off in the bluffs behind our houses, the dirt pocked with tracks where after dark older teens spun brodies and rolled their cars trying to climb the sheer canyon wall. Back here, behind neat rows of split-level homes and manicured lawns, where the gentle slopes of the streets gave… Read more →
When my father and I deliver meals Saturday mornings, our first stop is the apartment complex behind the hospital, the one with the Tudor façade and sign that reads This is a Drug Free Building, where sagging boxes clutter the balcony and feral cats sun their bellies on the stone staircase. I take a foil-wrapped tray up to the second… Read more →