Constance Adler is the author of My Bayou: New Orleans Through the Eyes of a Lover. Her stories have appeared in Oxford American, Gambit Weekly, Utne Reader, Peauxdunque Review, Blackbird, and forthcoming in River Teeth. She has a First-Place Award in feature writing from the Louisiana Press Association. Words & Music Literary Festival honored her…

C. Morgan Babst is a native of New Orleans. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The Washington Post, Saveur, The Oxford American, Guernica, the Harvard Review, Lenny Letter, and the New Orleans Review, among others, and she is a regular contributor to Garden and Gun. Her essays “Death Is a Way to Be”…