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Kelly Grey Carlisle lives with her family in San Antonio, Texas, where she is a professor at Trinity University. Her essays have appeared in Salon.com, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Sun, and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, among others.

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Kelly Grey Carlisle Yes, I am. I am in England now, researching a book about Durham Cathedral, a church that is almost 1,000 years old.

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I was really impressed with the skilled characterization of all of the amazing, frustrating and loveable people in your memoir. To me, they were as memorable as any fictional character, but with the added dimension of actually having existed. Did writing about these folks help give you perspective on all that they did to (and for) you? Do you have life lessons that you plan to share with your own children? Thank yo

Kelly Grey Carlisle What a thoughtful question; thank you! And thanks for reading. I had always known they were interesting characters, but YES, absolutely, writing about…moreWhat a thoughtful question; thank you! And thanks for reading. I had always known they were interesting characters, but YES, absolutely, writing about them did make me realize how much they did for me. At the end of the book I mention how when I was young I thought these people were kind to me because I was somehow special, but that now I realize it was because *they* were special. Writing about them was what led me to that realization. One of the things I'm proudest of with the book is that I could share their acts of kindness with the world. I hope my children have an equally varied "village" in their lives and I hope that I (and they) are parts of other people's villages.(less)

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	We Are All Shipwrecks 3.77 avg rating — 845 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford (Editor), Michael Martone (Editor), Bernard Cooper 4.15 avg rating — 712 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Prairie Schooner, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Fall, 2005) by Dika Eckersley (Designer), Hilda Raz (Editor), Kelly Grey Carlisle (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The elegant cadences of the English actors, the chant of the monks, the mournful choruses of women.”
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“The past was a bruise, and the more I pressed it, the more it hurt.”
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“My father’s tattoos were his history. They were the only thing left of him, the only trace of who he had been. They are as much evidence of his life as death, marks left behind like footprints in the sand.”
― Kelly Grey Carlisle, We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir

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