Deborah Thompson is an Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University, where she helped to develop the new master’s degree in Creative Nonfiction. She has published creative essays in venues such as the Missouri Review, the Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, Passages North, and Briar Cliff, and was awarded a Pushcart Prize for her piece “Mishti Kukur.” Debby is currently working on a collection of essays and a novel.
Winter 2016
After the Knife
“So tell me about Nate’s childhood,” I ask my mother across a coffee shop table.