Tracie Adams, a retired educator and playwright, writes fiction and memoir from her farm in rural Virginia.  She is the author of  Our Lives in Pieces, A Collection of Flash Memoir Essays. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared  in SoFloPoJo, Epistemic Lit, Trash Cat, Raw Lit, Fictive Dream, Frazzled Lit, and more. Follow her on Twitter @1funnyfarmAdams and on Substack @tracieadams.