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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: ROXANE GAY: 02.14.13
DEAR ALL OF YOU, When my heart was broken, or when I broke my own heart, or when my heart was broken and I refused to do the one thing that would bring my heart back together, I stopped writing love letters. I stopped thinking of love. Or I didn’t but I told myself I did. Or maybe I wrote love letters to someone I would give my heart to if they were willing to take it in their hands. Maybe I wrote countless love letters I could never send. Maybe I am still writing those love letters. Maybe that is how I now mark time in this place I know as after. Maybe those letters are all I have. Maybe, I tell myself, those letters will be enough. Maybe, love letters are the kindest lies. Roxane Gay's fiction, nonfiction and criticism are widely published and appears or is forthcoming in Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, New Stories from the Midwest 2011 and 2012, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Oxford American, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Salon, The Rumpus, and others. She is also the author of Ayiti, a collection of fiction and essays about the Haitian diaspora experience. For more information on her projects visit her website.
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