Amy Butcher is a recent recipient of the Olive B. O’Connor Nonfiction Fellowship at Colgate University and is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. She serves as editor of Defunct and her most recent work appears in Tin House, Salon, The Rumpus, Vela, and Indiana Review.
Winter 2014
The Art of Losing: Sarah Manguso’s The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend
In her heartbreaking new work, The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend, Sarah Manguso negotiates her response to the loss of her friend, Harris, whose traumatic suicide startles her into exploration.