Lacy M. Johnson

Biography

Lacy M. Johnson is the author of The Reckonings (Simon & Schuster, 2018) and the memoir The Other Side (Tin House, 2014), which was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, an Edgar Award in Best Fact Crime, and the CLMP Firecracker Award in Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Tin House, Guernica, and elsewhere. She lives in Houston and teaches creative nonfiction at Rice University.

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ESSAYS / Fall 2018

The Will of the Water

By Lacy M. Johnson

The bayous fill, and the water runs into the streets; the streets fill, and the water fills the highways and the underpasses. The water swallows cars and trucks and entire families of people. It swallows fathers and mothers and babies. The...

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