They named me Lucy on March 3rd. Dressed in white (dress, socks, slippers), I clutched a lacy sack of sacred clothing while I followed the small congregation from room to room of the Mormon temple. I entered a closet-like space, the place they name people in, the room that launches a person from who they […]
Alyssa Witbeck
ALYSSA WITBECK holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Montana where she was an editor for CutBank. She is published in Fiction Attic Press, Miracle Monocle, Rupture, Chestnut Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and won the Original Utah Writing Competition. Based in Utah, she teaches university English composition courses. She crochets an unsustainable number of stuffed animals, for no real reason. Find her online @alyssawitbeck.
