I want to talk about what the storm left in its wake. I want to talk about what it means to try to repair the irreparable, about how sometimes a place is never the same and how pretending it is creates an act of incessant denial, an erasure of what was lost and what could have been.
Lisa O'Neill
A native of New Orleans, Lisa O'Neill is an essayist and narrative journalist living in Tucson, Arizona. She has taught writing at the University of Arizona since 2007 and taught creative writing workshops with incarcerated students at juvenile and adult detention. Her work has been published in defunct, drunken boat, Diagram, The Feminist Wire, Essay Daily, and Edible Baja Arizona among others.