Andrew D. Cohen teaches writing and literature at Portland Community College in Oregon, where he lives with his wife and two sons. His essays have appeared in journals including Colorado Review, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, The Normal School, Confrontation, Hunger Mountain (as winner of the Creative Nonfiction Prize), and The Missouri Review (as winner of The Editors’ Prize). Read his essay from the Summer/Fall issue of the Saint Ann’s Review. This essay was reprinted in the Saint Ann’s Review’s Tenth Anniversary Issue.