Memphis(75)

Chef Bahía, Matanzas, Cuba

Ranchón El Valle, Monserrate, Cuba Calypso Relax, Bocale, Italy

Casa del Popolo, Fiesole, Italy

Terrazza 45, Fiesole, Italy

Vinandro (Vino e Desco Molle), Fiesole, Italy The Bourgeois Pig, Chicago, IL

Schwa, Chicago, IL

Steadfast (at the Gray Hotel), Chicago, IL

La Canasta, Alhaurín de la Torre, Spain Restaurante Casa Sardina, Alhaurín el Grande, Spain La Bodeguita, Alhaurín el Grande, Spain El Tapeo del Soho, Malaga, Spain

Billy’s Seafood, Kill Devil Hills, NC

The SaltBox Café, Kill Devil Hills, NC

The LINE Hotel, Los Angeles and Washington, DC

Bidwell Restaurant, Washington, DC

Cozy Corner, Memphis, TN

Local on the Square, Memphis, TN

Porch and Parlor, Memphis, TN



Lastly, I’m quite certain that I wrote every single word of this, that I placed every single punctuation mark on the page, for my kids, for my tenth-grade English students at White Station High School in Memphis, Tennessee, and KIPP DC College Preparatory in Washington, DC. Read, my loves. Read. Read. Read.

And write.

—The Author





About the Author


Poet, former attorney, Northwestern University MFA graduate, and semifinalist for a Fulbright Fellowship, Tara M. Stringfellow has written for Collective Unrest, Minerva Rising, Jet Fuel Review, WomenArts Quarterly Journal, and Apogee Journal, among other publications. After having lived in Okinawa, Ghana, Chicago, Cuba, Spain, Italy, and Washington, DC, she moved back home to Memphis, where she sits on her porch swing every evening, with her hound, Huckleberry, listening to records and chatting with neighbors.

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