About the Contributors

Vibha Akkaraju writes personal narratives that emerge from her family entanglements, her overthinking of fleeting observations, and the traffic jam at the Indian American intersection. Her work has been published in The Dillydoun Review, HerStry, and Daring to Breathe: Stories of Living with the Foreverness of Grief (The Press at Cal State University, Fresno, January 2024), among other places. She is currently working on a memoir about her family's move from India to the U.S., her and her father's divergent search for identity, and the ripples cast by immigration. Website: www.vibhascribbles.com.Tim Bascom's newest book, Climbing Lessons, is a collection of brief playful essays about the father-son bond in his Kansas-based clan. Bascom is the author of four other books, including…