Claire Vaye Watkins, the author of Battleborn and Gold Fame Citrus, wrote the foreword for the upcoming anthology This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West. I love her books and can't believe my words will be between the same covers as her's.  

With Claire Vaye Watkins plus 15 short stories, this anthology is sure to be a great read. Look for my story, The Casita on Flower Street, February 12, 2019.

Here's the description of the anthology from the press's website:
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Coming February 12, 2019 
​THIS SIDE OF THE DIVIDE Stories of the American West
From Baobab Press, in coordination with the University of Nevada, Reno’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, comes This Side of the Divide: Stories, the first anthology in a literary series attempting to capture the newness, vastness, territoriality and sense of transience alive in the American West.  Set west of the Continental Divide, these narratives skillfully demonstrate the beauty, austerity, and danger of the untouched wilderness, delight in the mutual ease and asphyxiation of the hyper-urban and chart the interstitial spaces of the developing and the abandoned. Inhabiting the West’s richly varied landscapes, the characters in these stories provide a glimpse of the social and cultural diversity on display in these regions. Among these 15 stories, gathered from rising literary voices, a single mother struggles to maintain her individuality while raising an autistic son; a cathartic hike brings an unsuspecting widow face-to-face with her own mortality; a man injured in a train wreck questions his existence as he blindly wanders the desert; an aging cowboy rides the highways astride his magnificent horse, a final remnant of a fleeting era; Sasquatch looks for love in all the wrong places; and a divorcee tries to reconcile her present with her past, her heart with her head. Positioning the voices of emerging authors alongside acclaimed writers such as Tobias Wolff, Brian Evenson and Nona Caspers, these collected stories, at turns hilarious, frightening, and devastating, showcase the variety of identity, amalgam of voice and depth of character that make the American West such a truly brilliant, literary mosaic. Contributors include Tobias Wolff, Maile Meloy, Brian Evenson, Melinda Moustakis, Nona Caspers, Douglas W. Milliken, David Gillette, Miranda Schmidt, Michelle Willms, Andrea Lani, Leah Griesmann, Vanessa Hua, Cathy Warner, Mark Maynard, Aharon Levy, Sian Griffiths, L.L. Madrid, Kirk Wilson, Ashley Davidson, Carl Beideman, E.G. Willy, Shelley Blanton-Stroud, and Linda Lenhoff, with a foreword by Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn and Gold Fame Citrus.
Book Details
Title: This Side of the Divide: Contemporary Stories of the American West
Publication Date: February 12, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-936097-24-1
Dist. by Publishers Group West
www.pgw.com, 800-788-2123
Preorder: Sundance Books and Music

baobabpress.com/books/this-side-of-the-divide-contemporary-stories-of-the-american-west/

I'm stoked that my story, Reincarnated Clouds, is available in this gorgeous edition of The Wax Paper. Check it out at thewaxpaper.com