Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell grew up working on a family farm in Lockney, Texas. Lee Anne’s essays and poems can be found in Bat City Review, Iron Horse Literary Review,The Greensboro Review, Storm Cellar, and Terrain.org, among others. Her essay, “Debridement,” first published in Gravel, was chosen as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2019. She has a PhD in English from the University of Texas and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona. She writes about illness and grief, farming and rural life, violence and war. She is currently at work on a hybrid collection of essays and poems, Campfollowers, which documents the long lasting mental and physical effects of disaster preparedness, anticipatory grief, and lived proximities to violence through her experiences both as the adult child of a disabled combat veteran and the spouse of an active duty service member. The collection layers personal histories alongside poetic narratives of campfollowers throughout history, illustrating the intimate and collective connections between families and militaries to grief and trauma, power and violence.
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