Author Archives: HMM

This week, I made tiny fried pies: little pillows of piecrust stuffed with strawberry preserves. I pressed the edges of the crusts together to seal the strawberries inside, plopped the pies into a cast iron pan sizzling with oil, and let them brown. I lifted the pies out one by one, setting them on aContinue reading “Frying Pie”

Last week’s AWP conference in Minneapolis was my first good excuse in a long time to sail back to my college town. It was also a good excuse for half a dozen reunions—with a high school writing buddy, with friends from my days as an undergrad student in St. Paul, and with classmates from theContinue reading “Minnesota’s Nice”