The first question I ask everyone who visits my house is Can you hear the ocean? But what I want to know is What do you hear of the ocean? Do you hear the booms of crashing waves, at once a collision in white and a coalescence of blue? Or gasping; the straining of great […]
Rachel Lloyd
Rachel Lloyd is a two-time winner of the Sultan Short Story Contest, and recipient of the Virginia Mason Vaughan Prize. Her work has appeared in The Capra Review and The Next Chapter. She has studied and taught in Boston, Bath, and Shanghai. A late-to-the-literary-party dyslexic, Rachel is a voracious reader eager to make up for lost time. Her favorite subjects include nature writing and Monster Theory. She enjoys cooking, wearing warm socks, and watching the sun halo the cobweb spun on her skylight. Rachel fervently believes that, as Mikhail Bakhtin said, “A word is a bridge thrown between myself and another.” It goes without saying she believes in building bridges. You can find her on Twitter @73RachelLloyd or online at rachellloydwrites.com. Author photo is by director_wrath.